<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # In the same way every animal finds its way into a... > {{In the same way every animal finds its way into a trap, people sure-footedly step toward normalcy to survive.}} {{The opposite of self-realization is being realized, or made real, by the standards of outside force or influence.}} {{If you are not creating yourself, then an imposed 'self,' is being created for you.}} {{When you are not building yourself as the creator of your own life, you are being built, into the image and likeness of your cultural creator.}} {{Without individuation, your identity is the collective.}} {{Common, conventional, mainstream, and normal — these are the states of the aborted individual; the unborn in mind, faculty, awareness, and self-knowledge.}} They are commonly called sleepwalkers, zombies, the status quo, and the masses, but in reality, it is each of us to one degree or another. {{The real question is how much of the actual you, are you ever going to experience?}} {{Experiencing yourself is your life purpose.}} {{You experience nothing, but yourself.}} {{Every so-called experience, relationship, connection, pain, passion, feeling, thought, sense, and emotion, is a sublimation of life's grand transmission upon the canvas of you experiencing yourself.}} {{If you are not steeped in the ecstasy of experiencing yourself, then you have never fully lived.}} For, t{T{he only true anxiety of life is to be severed from life, by being severed from self.}} **Source:** [[books/Various Writings|Various Writings]] <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->