INESSENCE 1 THE INSIDE STORY SUMMARY

THE BIGGEST LIE DEEPER INAUTHENTICITY

The biggest lie in the world is that material objects,
material achievements, material relationships, and
material arrangements will make you happy. This
lie perpetuates because we haven’t understood the
Inside Story!
The sages of the East say our inauthenticity runs
even deeper. Not only are we grappling with the
superficiality of our functional identity in this world
– but we are struggling with inauthenticity on a
deeper existential level.

This Inside Story is that we’re not this body or mind,

ARE WE SELF-AWARE? but rather an indestructible spirit soul. When our
Here's a test to see how conscious and self-aware decisions factor in this crucial understanding, it re-
you are. How definitively and accurately could you routes our entire life trajectory in a progressive
answer the following questions? direction

What are my values?

What are my strengths & weaknesses?

What are my behaviours & emotional

triggers?

What is the habitat in which I thrive?

What is my passion & purpose?

Inauthenticity is when:
1) We don’t know the answers
2) Our decisions don’t align with the answers

“To be yourself in a world

that is constantly trying to
make you something else
is the greatest
accomplishment.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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INESSENCE 1 THE INSIDE STORY REFLECTION

Q Think of the following influences in

your life – how do you think they may
have caused you to lose sense of your
authentic self?
Q Think of three aspirations you have.
Upon reflection, do you think they’ll
make you happy? If not, why are they
still so important for you to achieve?

Media
1.

Family & Friends

2.

Tradition & Trends

3.

Media & Trends

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