The Creative Rebel with Justin Lodge

The Creative Rebel with Justin Lodge

The Shadow of Vanity

It affects us all

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Justin Lodge
Jan 28, 2025
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The issue is that many of us don’t know that we’re lost in our shadow of vanity.

We don’t know that we’re driven by our desperate need to escape the oppression of our childhood upbringing. 

And it’s all driven by the addiction to our drama. 

“Wake me up when it’s all over, I didn’t know I was lost,” is an expression of this shadow of vanity that’s hidden a…

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