I'm going to begin this post with a quote: “Your identity is a mirror covered with dust. When you first look in the mirror, the truth of who you are and what you value is obscured. Clearing it may not be pleasant, but only when that dust is gone can you see your true reflection.” Attributed to Gauranga Das, in Jay Shetty’s book Think Like a Monk. I learned something similar to this in my Reiki studies of Mikao Usui. In these readings, our True Self was likened to a lamp whose