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How to approach ego teachings when struggling with weak self-identity

My meditation group keeps talking about ego death but I barely have a sense of self to begin with after years of depression and I don't know if I need more ego or less.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Some souls need to build a self before they can transcend it, with healing requiring movement toward wholeness rather than dissolution.

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