You can’t see yourself as others see you, and mostly you have the wrong idea anyway, because you assume others think as you do and usually they don’t. It’s important for us to feel that the world – at least the immediate world around us – approves of us. But when you understand that nobody sees the same way you do, then you realise that it doesn’t really matter what other people think of you. You understand that everyone is operating from a selfish point of view; they’re only concerned with themselves, or what you can offer them. They’re not concerned about you. When you reach the point where
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