We are so “attached” to our possessions and accomplishments that they become a source of pride. This pride causes us to define ourselves by our attachments:

Who am I? “I am the president of the company”; “I am a Ph.D”; “I am the doctor’s wife”; “I am the best dancer on the block.” Pride plays a large role in maintaining a rigid persona; it fixes us in place entangling and entrapping us, deadening the living flow of…