This little gem of a quote is from the book The Third Level of Self-Awareness by Susan Cain. I love this quote because it reminds us of the fact that we have three levels of self-awareness. No matter which level you think you’re at, there’s a third level of awareness.

This is the level of awareness that makes us aware of our habits, routines, impulses, and reactions. And as we move up that third level, we start to see the habits, routines, impulses and reactions that we have that cause our lives to stop being what they were. We’re aware of how we’re acting, but we’re still not aware of how we’re acting.

So I guess we have to go back to a third level of self-awareness, but this time we’re trying to stop our habits, routines, impulses and reactions (aka, our autopilot habits).

So when we were born, our parents kept a lot of things to ourselves. Most of us are still doing that. We don’t really even know why we do it, but we do it because that’s what we were taught. The same is true in the case of our lives.

Sure, we can blame our parents for being the parents we are today. But we also can blame the society we live in. People today are taught to be ashamed. Even among the most liberal, modern, and educated people, people who have a lot of money and don’t want to work, we still find ways to hide our true selves and who we are. It’s like a self-fulfilling prophecy.

This is why we have our secret identities. When we are younger we are taught to hide our true selves and who we really are. The same is true in our lives. We were taught to lie about who we are. We hide who we really are from others. We feel ashamed, and we hide the truth about ourselves. This is our way of dealing with shame. But as we get older, we learn to not lie anymore, and we feel comfortable revealing who we really are.

This is where the problem starts. We don’t stop hiding our truth about who we are, even when we know the truth. We don’t stop hiding who we really are because we don’t want to, it’s just that we no longer need to. We don’t need to hide who we really are because we don’t need to.

Shame is a tricky thing because it takes us out of ourselves, and it puts us in another place. We feel shame for being shameful, but we don’t actually do anything about it. This is where the “death loop” comes into play. We feel shame for not being ourselves, but we do nothing about it. Shame is a very slippery slope that can easily take us out of our own body and into another.

Shame is actually a really easy to slip into. The first time I felt it I was in a mental hospital. I had to force myself to walk the halls of that hospital and remind myself that I was the same person I had been before the mental hospital. This time I am not in a mental hospital, but am in the same situation. I am shamed for not being me. Shame is a very slippery slope that can easily take us out of our own body and into another.

Shame is a slippery slope that can easily take us out of our own body and into another. The first time I felt shame I was in a mental hospital. I was forced to walk the halls of that hospital and remind myself that I was the same person I had been before the mental hospital. This time I am not in a mental hospital, but am in the same situation. I am shamed for not being me.