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Rodney Smith
Stepping Out of Self-Deception

November 19, 2025 4:05 pm

Source: Stepping Out of Self-Deception

The sense-of-self only knows how to handle problems and proceed using its story, which is composed of thoughts and emotions that have formed around past failures and successes. Though a specific problem may be partially resolved through our tried-and-true methods of the past, conditioned responses will never end suffering. Problems end when we perceive the story and the storyteller as false assumptions.