Why You Shouldn't Be Self-Conscious

self-consciousness is literally

indistinguishable from negative emotion

so if you do factor analysis of the

words that people use to describe

themselves including emotional words all

the concepts associated with

self-consciousness load on exactly the

same Dimension as anxiety and pain and

frustration and shame so to be

self-conscious literally is to suffer

many philosophical commentators have

noted this that we wouldn't give up our

capacity for self-consciousness right

because it's also something that sets us

apart from The Brute animals but to

transcend that self-consciousness does

put you in a state where the Eternal

speaks you can tell you're at the place

the Eternal speaks when you're not

self-conscious