we humans can respond to the world that we have created in our heads, the one that we have imagined, the one that we think about, and can experience ourselves within that world within our heads. Our self-awareness and our capacity ‘to think about our self’, to recognize we are, for instance, a self that we may not want to be, an ashamed self, a ‘less than self’, an ‘out-of-control self’ – all those reflections seriously add to our miseries.
