The first part of ourselves that we really encounter more than anything else is our personality. Also the first part of others that we encounter is their personality.
We don't actually realise this. Because we are the personality and we can't see it. In other words we are very identified with the personality. We believe that our real and true identity is that of our personality.
Becasue we don't easily see the personality we instead focus on the egos we have. Which is good but they flare out much less than our personality which is practically there all the time.
The personality is the structure that the egos express through. The way our personality is formed, conditions the way the egos express themselves.
The first step is to make our personality passive. The true way of doing this is by understanding that it is our false identity. Our real identity is our essence.
The next step is to then stop serving the interests of the personality (false identity) and start serving the priorities of our true identity which is our essence.
To make our personality passive means to not believe in the personality being our true identity. To do this we need the esoteric teachings to help us.
This is really the biggest first step of our awakening.
If we know how to make our personality passive we can better work on our egos.
The paradox is that it takes so long to be able to work on the personality. So we work on the ego first then see the personality and start from the begining working on both our personality and the egos we have.
End (5692).
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