It is likely that many, if not all, of us would agree that we all should be ourselves, don't we? I have had agreed to it, and yes, I too have been myself.
I would still want to be myself even to the end as many others would. Because, many of us would not want to keep away our current imperfect authentic self, but this understanding could change our perspective on and who we are if we agree:
It is like this, in the form of a question, 'how can we be as we should be if we remain as we are?'
Without taking the time, a short answer to whether or not we should be ourselves is, 'No, we don’t have to and should not be ourselves. We have to be who we should be.' (Jesus Christ comes to the mind as He has told us a good/perfect love by living.)
Moving on to be who we should be is not about devaluing and changing from who we are for others to like us but to achieve a greater character and ground. What is important is whether being ourselves keep us in the dark, stop us from who we can and should be while designing us to a bad destiny or liberates us for a good destiny.
Being ourselves (myself and yourself) is a stillness, stagnantness, and that proves it is a disadvantage as there is no progress in it. It is an imprisonment of self in the dark.
In other words, to be oneself is to be in ego (related to 'pride'). When we are proud to be who we are we cannot become who we should be. When we are in ego state it means we are not humbling ourselves to see and learn to be a better people.
Ego or pride is something we can’t live with forever before God of love our Father and our savior humble Jesus Christ. Because ego or pride is like a soul that stand in between, two parties, good and evil waging war against each other. It is, in fact, always leaning toward or supporting the unwanted - evil. Meaning, if we are ourselves (choosing pride) between good or bad character, we are choosing bad character, as pride belongs to it.
Our Root
We may want to relate goodness with being ourselves but the end result is always not a good one as we humans tends to be consumed by ourselves - ego clarified above. In fact, we have lose ourselves, our original selves in Eden by being deceived and then choice, and we all use to have unwanted desires, that tells that we should not be ourselves - imperfect selves.
Being ourselves is cruel, and foolish because the ego leads us to be in that way. For example, someone wants us to be a good people and advise us the way, and we thought it is a good one. But on the other hand the ego in us tells us (to engage in war with our original selves or the good advise, or) to be ourselves - imperfect selves. It tells us the good way is not ourselves and that it is countering us.
Since we were taught to be ourselves - imperfect selves, we decide to get back to ourselves, imperfect selves, to be in a naïve and non-progress state. That is cruel to our original selves and who loves us or gives us good advise.
We have not been like that when we were children, we did not say I am what I am. Egotism is to protect even our bad characters in us even though we know it is bad. We only begin to be egoist, consciously our-imperfect-selves, when we have reach a certain age and come to be aware of who we are, oh not that one, but come to love who we are. It is also because we have been taught by our own opinion including others to be ourselves, to love our-imperfect-selves.
Is that another deception and we are being deceived twice? All of us may not feel a need to answer whether or not it is, because we all believe it is true and natural to be ourselves, and that began from time unknown. We can't blame one another or anyone as we all have been it's casualty.
So, being ourselves is a lack of knowledge/foolish, and it is a cruel state that keep us to be unable to change into a better people, that is who we should be.
Therefore, no, we don’t have to and should not be ourselves. We have to be who we should be. We have to get back to be our original selves that is manifested and proven in Jesus Christ. We can also understand His words like this, 'if we do not hate ourselves we cannot follow - become like him, we cannot become our original selves.' So, there is no ego there, and there is no be yourself - imperfect self.
Because we all try to be ourselves, our imperfect selves, as we understood we can't agree to one another, we cannot live as kinsfolk. If we all instead try to be a better one good people, as Jesus Christ said, love your neighbor as you love yourselves, in fact if we all pray and work to be like Him, willing to sacrificing for others and a better world, we all will dwell in harmony and our kinship as human will be honored.
Is not that how you and I should be?
In short, the first step to become ourselves, original selves, is to realize the truth about ourselves, imperfect self. Second, to not be ourselves, imperfect selves. And, to move forward to be who we should be - god like as God's children.
If we still want to use or say, 'be yourself,' we may say this way, who you should be is yourself, so be yourself, that is who you should be (not who you are right now). That is, to be like Jesus Christ, because He is the Way (may means, our-original-selves), the Truth and the Life.
I would still want to be myself even to the end as many others would. Because, many of us would not want to keep away our current imperfect authentic self, but this understanding could change our perspective on and who we are if we agree:
It is like this, in the form of a question, 'how can we be as we should be if we remain as we are?'
Without taking the time, a short answer to whether or not we should be ourselves is, 'No, we don’t have to and should not be ourselves. We have to be who we should be.' (Jesus Christ comes to the mind as He has told us a good/perfect love by living.)
Moving on to be who we should be is not about devaluing and changing from who we are for others to like us but to achieve a greater character and ground. What is important is whether being ourselves keep us in the dark, stop us from who we can and should be while designing us to a bad destiny or liberates us for a good destiny.
Being ourselves (myself and yourself) is a stillness, stagnantness, and that proves it is a disadvantage as there is no progress in it. It is an imprisonment of self in the dark.
In other words, to be oneself is to be in ego (related to 'pride'). When we are proud to be who we are we cannot become who we should be. When we are in ego state it means we are not humbling ourselves to see and learn to be a better people.
Ego or pride is something we can’t live with forever before God of love our Father and our savior humble Jesus Christ. Because ego or pride is like a soul that stand in between, two parties, good and evil waging war against each other. It is, in fact, always leaning toward or supporting the unwanted - evil. Meaning, if we are ourselves (choosing pride) between good or bad character, we are choosing bad character, as pride belongs to it.
Our Root
We may want to relate goodness with being ourselves but the end result is always not a good one as we humans tends to be consumed by ourselves - ego clarified above. In fact, we have lose ourselves, our original selves in Eden by being deceived and then choice, and we all use to have unwanted desires, that tells that we should not be ourselves - imperfect selves.
Being ourselves is cruel, and foolish because the ego leads us to be in that way. For example, someone wants us to be a good people and advise us the way, and we thought it is a good one. But on the other hand the ego in us tells us (to engage in war with our original selves or the good advise, or) to be ourselves - imperfect selves. It tells us the good way is not ourselves and that it is countering us.
Since we were taught to be ourselves - imperfect selves, we decide to get back to ourselves, imperfect selves, to be in a naïve and non-progress state. That is cruel to our original selves and who loves us or gives us good advise.
We have not been like that when we were children, we did not say I am what I am. Egotism is to protect even our bad characters in us even though we know it is bad. We only begin to be egoist, consciously our-imperfect-selves, when we have reach a certain age and come to be aware of who we are, oh not that one, but come to love who we are. It is also because we have been taught by our own opinion including others to be ourselves, to love our-imperfect-selves.
Is that another deception and we are being deceived twice? All of us may not feel a need to answer whether or not it is, because we all believe it is true and natural to be ourselves, and that began from time unknown. We can't blame one another or anyone as we all have been it's casualty.
So, being ourselves is a lack of knowledge/foolish, and it is a cruel state that keep us to be unable to change into a better people, that is who we should be.
Therefore, no, we don’t have to and should not be ourselves. We have to be who we should be. We have to get back to be our original selves that is manifested and proven in Jesus Christ. We can also understand His words like this, 'if we do not hate ourselves we cannot follow - become like him, we cannot become our original selves.' So, there is no ego there, and there is no be yourself - imperfect self.
Because we all try to be ourselves, our imperfect selves, as we understood we can't agree to one another, we cannot live as kinsfolk. If we all instead try to be a better one good people, as Jesus Christ said, love your neighbor as you love yourselves, in fact if we all pray and work to be like Him, willing to sacrificing for others and a better world, we all will dwell in harmony and our kinship as human will be honored.
Is not that how you and I should be?
In short, the first step to become ourselves, original selves, is to realize the truth about ourselves, imperfect self. Second, to not be ourselves, imperfect selves. And, to move forward to be who we should be - god like as God's children.
If we still want to use or say, 'be yourself,' we may say this way, who you should be is yourself, so be yourself, that is who you should be (not who you are right now). That is, to be like Jesus Christ, because He is the Way (may means, our-original-selves), the Truth and the Life.
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