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We can’t find safety in the domain that’s not creating its lack

Being human, Life philosophy, Self-knowledge | October 12, 2024 | By Pavlina Papashimova

One of the “lessons” so many of us learn as children is that we are not safe. My own formative introduction to that was through being locked out one evening. I’d been to visit the neighbours and I got home a few minutes later than I was supposed to.

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The absence of the idea of you

Self-knowledge | July 7, 2024 | By Pavlina Papashimova

The access to who we really are is on the other side of our limited idea of ourselves. The stories and narratives we have about ourselves are invariably based in limitation. They are coping mechanisms we, or more precisely the ego-based part of us, adopted when we were children in response to the events of our life.

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