Remove your self-created image and joy will follow.

It is exhausting to keep playing the character in the movie your mind has created for you. It's the most courageous thing to free yourself from the roles you have taken on throughout your life and expectations you have been living up to, to maintain those roles. The true freedom comes from detaching yourself from the world and from the character you have been playing, and seeing the reality clearly for what it is. From that place, all magic happens.