City people are more insufferable
Individuality is your essence. You come with it, you are born with it. Personality is borrowed. It is given by the society to you. It is just like clothes, subtle clothes.
A child is born naked, then we hide his nakedness - we give him clothes. A child is born with essence, individuality - we hide that too because naked individuality is rebellious, non-conformist.
Individuality is exactly what it means: it is individual. Personality is not individual, it is social.
Society wants you to have personalities, not individualities because your individualities will create conflict. The society hides your individuality and gives a personality. Personality is a learned thing. The word personality comes from a Greek root which means mask, persona. In Greek drama the actors used to wear masks to hide their real face and to show some other face. From persona comes the word personality; it is a face that you wear, it is not your original face.
When the personality disappears don't be afraid. Then for the first time you become authentic, for the first time you become real, for the first time you attain to essence. That essence, in India, has been called atma, the soul.
Personality is false, it is the greatest lie. And because the whole society depends on personality - the state, the church, organizations, the establishment - they are all lies. The western psychology goes on thinking too much about the personality, that's why the whole western psychology is a psychology based on the basic lie.
>Deep shit user. Very nice.
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