1 Kings 14:6 · World English Bible
So when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet as she came in at the door, he said, “Come in, Jeroboam’s wife! Why do you pretend to be another? For I am sent to you with heavy news.
Why do you pretend to be someone you are not? The disguise you wear was made by the mind, a role assembled from fears and wants, and you have worn it so long you mistake it for your face.
From the Ego v. Being reading below.
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EGO & BEING
Why do you pretend to be someone you are not? The disguise you wear was made by the mind, a role assembled from fears and wants, and you have worn it so long you mistake it for your face. Yet presence sees straight through it, as the prophet knew the wife of Jeroboam the instant she stepped through the door.
You cannot hide what you are behind a costume of thought. The heavy tidings are simply this: the false self must fall. When you stop feigning to be another and rest as the awareness you already are, the exhausting work of pretending comes to an end.
Ego v. Being lens
Where are you still spending energy keeping up a version of yourself nobody actually asked for?
The teaching asks for your original face, the one that existed before any role was handed to you. Every mask you present, however well made, is later than what is wearing it.
The heart is a mirror, and the work is polishing off the rust rather than painting something new on the glass. What was always there shows the moment the covering goes.
Nothing is more shameful than insincerity, and the man who announces how straightforward he is has already given himself away. Be one person plainly instead of presenting one.
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Ego v. Being