Generally we do not recognize that our social identities are molded and confined by context, and that these outer layers of ourselves exist within a boundless reality. Habitual patterns cover over this boundless reality; they obscure it, but it is always there ready to be uncovered.

Mingyur Rinpoche
from the book In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying
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