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Originally Posted by say  In that regard personal development is just developing a (small) part of yourself. So that when "you" as a certain person become wealthy (or whatever) it's not the "real" you who has become wealthy. So why are you trying to make this person (the not "real" you) wealthy? I don't know, people do a lot of crazy stuff.  ( Seriously, you have answer this question to yourself.) |
Personal development is a funny term because there is no 'person' to develop. It is a fictitious person that needs to be improved -- a mind-made self.
The self that I am is not lacking in anyway, but the self that I have mentally constructed and identify with as "me" is always looking for more of this or that. Whether it be money, identity, notoriety, intelligence, or even PURPOSE. I am the awareness that experiences this world, and this world is shadow.
Be in the world but not of it.
I use that as a reminder all the time. The "me" that is real is not of this world , just observing the world from a unique point of view. I have to quiet my mind to experience myself as that.