People use masks in public and then wonder why their personal life, their relationships, don't work. If you're not being honest with others, there's nothing real about yourself to learn and, the wider the gap, the deeper the suffering. The heart wasn't meant to be closed in a box made of fake feelings and thoughts. Robin Sacredfire
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A lot of people go around with a mask on in public, pretending to be a certain person. They make a show of being a certain kind of person to the outside world, while they are secretly the opposite in real life. This is something that is often hard to recognize because people have been doing it for so long. The truth of the matter is that this makes relationships very hard. If you only get to see the person who you want them to be, then how can you get close to them? You will not get to know them for who they really are and they will never truly get to know you.

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