Your identity is your outer most layer, it's the idea that you think other people have of you.
Your shame is what's shielding you from expressing your true self, which is at your core.
It is from your shame circle that irrational thoughts breed and thrive.
23. Fall in love with the unknown, for the fact that it will almost always bring you things better than you could have imagined- things that are worse than you could have imagined are always products of your own thinking or perception of what they mean about you or your future.
22. Take the instances in which you're most uncomfortable to mean that it's time you expand yourself. You need to learn to think differently, see differently, do differently. You need to open yourself. If you don't you'll be stuck in the cocoon phase forever
21. Trust what gives you peace. Whether it's the idea of one intimate relationship or a career in the field of your dreams scares you initially, if it's what you really want, it will also give you a feeling of yes. Trust your yes feelings.
20. Do not always trust yourself. Give yourself space to be wrong. Open yourself up to the idea that you don't know what you don't know. If your feelings are informed by irrational thoughts they can very well be incorrect.