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The central issue of the spiritual journey is stepping out of the self-imposed deception of being someone. At a certain point you will recognize the truth of your own emptiness, and the practice can then become very simple. Surrender the need to be someone. That surrender takes you to deeper levels of self-identification, which must also be relinquished. Begin with the more gross expressions of yourself, encased within your reactions, dislikes, fears, and passions. See them arise and release them back to the quiet from which they came. As you refine your noticing, so too will the more nuanced areas of your persona begin to be seen. Let them be released into the stillness as well.