We Are All Different, And Unique

We aren’t a group thing.

Our approach to anything is individual, due to our backgrounds of confusion, doubt and ignorance. These are, in fact, good things: they are our path to enlightenment when we see and understand that they cause us suffering, in the form of a self-identification.

When we cling to groupthink, we don’t feel so alone, but that is a cover-up as we merge with others in a soup-bowl of pretence. This soupthink can make us uncomfortable because it’s one-dimensional, lacking depth as no one is able to talk honestly.

The difference shows when dealing with a problem:
the less sure of ourself, the more reactive we are.

It is the realised who are not unique as their realisation is one of non-duality. Their seeming differences are due to the culture from which they arose.

Birds of a feather may flock together, but they are not one bird.

Being an individual, we have to take responsibility for our ego,
rather than relying on others to support it.