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Buddhism

angstlessk

(11,862 posts) Tue Mar 7, 2017, 01:04 AM Mar 2017

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I was never aware of my SELF

OR I am a total narcissist...how can I tell?

Is non self awareness narcissism?

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I was never aware of my SELF (Original Post) angstlessk Mar 2017 OP

total narcissists never ask themselves whether they are total narcissists or not virtualobserver Mar 2017 #1

When you look in a mirror are you aware that it represents you? TexasProgresive Mar 2017 #2

My grandmother said she wished a mirror had never been invented angstlessk Mar 2017 #4

You have to differentiate between the self and the Self. Tobin S. Mar 2017 #3

virtualobserver

(8,760 posts)

1. total narcissists never ask themselves whether they are total narcissists or not

Reply to angstlessk (Original post)

Tue Mar 7, 2017, 01:25 AM

Mar 2017

What do you mean when you say that you were never aware of your self?

TexasProgresive

(12,329 posts)

2. When you look in a mirror are you aware that it represents you?

Reply to angstlessk (Original post)

Tue Mar 7, 2017, 06:55 AM

Mar 2017

Or do you think it's someone else?

angstlessk

(11,862 posts)

4. My grandmother said she wished a mirror had never been invented

Reply to TexasProgresive (Reply #2)

Sat Mar 11, 2017, 06:50 PM

Mar 2017

She was a beautiful girl/woman even as an old lady she was beautiful.

I used to look into a mirror to muse my life...I must say I looked at my reflection and wondered who I was....
and sometimes who I was changed, based on what was happening in my life...'Three faces of Eve' is an extreme case of multiple personalities...I believe there are more subtle changes that happen...going from work as a competent worker to home and to a man who likes 'little girls' and talking in baby talk...without knowing how different you have become is a type of multiple personality...There have even been a few times I have been accused of phoning threats..and I declare I would NEVER do such a thing?

Tobin S.

(10,420 posts)

3. You have to differentiate between the self and the Self.

Reply to angstlessk (Original post)

Tue Mar 7, 2017, 02:03 PM

Mar 2017

The two are different entities. The self is your ego, personality, and body. The Self (capital S) is a much deeper part of people and is common to everyone. The Self is the same thing in everyone. Some people call it God.

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