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The Myth of Me

An Invitation to Inner & Outer Reflection

3 min readApr 9, 2025

Who are you?

Image from Rishabh Dharmani on Unsplash

The constantly reinforced and barricaded concept of “the Self” that Western civilization clings to is antithetical to its own sustainability.

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We are not our jobs, bank accounts, hobbies, fancy toys, or individual tastes.

We are not our political leanings, financial gains, or the titles assigned to us by achievements or legalistic structures.

We are not even our names, our bodies, our pain, or our memories.

We are more.

We are less.

The human animal is the wild card in the bunch, the thing that doesn’t belong on the scene, has never fit in to nature’s grand design — not without a fight.

The “I” you call yourself is ultimately no different that the one that refers to the writer of the words you read.

The paradoxical oneness of being has to break apart into duality, and thus: fragmented identities, knowledge of good and evil, battles of addiction and habit, privilege and poverty, ideological purity and corruption.

We are all parts of the great unfolding of existence, and though it hurts, though…

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The Dropout Professor
The Dropout Professor

Written by The Dropout Professor

Being anything at all is a paradox. Writing about spirituality, philosophy, and personal experience, I hope to make you both laugh and think. Maybe even learn.

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