What does it mean to be yourself?
Having heard the advice "be simple, be yourself", our contemporary can take it literally. Being simple means saying what you think? To be yourself is to follow only the call of your ego? If it were so, our already traumatized society with a quick walk overnight would have moved to Jogging. And people would run straight to loneliness and degradation.
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Simplicity is not accessibility, transparency and low IQ. This is a stage of spiritual development, where a person has no difficulties in communicating with himself or in contact with society. Of course, if he has no education, tact, and in dialogue with people this person uses rudeness, profanity and disrespect for the interlocutor, it is not simplicity, but rudeness.
It is about spiritual simplicity, sincere communication without tricks, tricks and manipulation. A simple person says what he thinks, but in his mind there is a clear scale of values, which does not allow to humiliate and use others.
"Correct" simplicity is recognized immediately. Many saints had this characteristic of character, this way of life. They are always open to his students, fellow citizens with the aim to transfer knowledge, to support, to help. Without thinking of profit, fame or recognition. Ordinary people are able to choose a mood for life, being in which they are harmonious with the world and with themselves.
The technogenic environment complicates everything. Being simple is a shortcoming in the modern understanding. Such people want to cheat, use, offend, make fun of them. And so psychologists are taught to be easier alone, but to build a serious defense, going out into the world.
Being simple means being honest with yourself, loyal and even humble. This model of behavior improves the "quality of life", frees from perfectionism, guilt, inferiority. In combination with the spiritual movement and self-improvement, it gives very good results.
I am sincere, I do not seem, I am!
To be yourself is to be a whole, harmonious person who lives his own life, not the life of the system. Such a person has not only the awareness of life, but also the ability to make it what he wants. In all spheres of existence, sincere people follow their path, no matter how strange it may seem to society.
They work at their favorite work, regardless of its status and payment. Do not complain and do not enter into the soul with the temporary arrangements will not compromise and accept life for what it is. If it is not pleasant-change. The bulk of the population does not feel joy from work, or from personal, family relations, or from communicating with themselves. Virtual communication, social networks, television, installations and clothespins of society – all this distances people from their essence.
A person who is aware of himself and controls his life, strives for the harmony of soul and mind, and therefore seeks to be himself.
There is nothing wrong with accepting your flaws, acknowledging bad emotions, freeing yourself from other people's rules, habits, goals. It is possible to be an honest, purposeful, free person in any society. One has only to want and start working in this direction.
