Eckhart Tolle on Shyness, Self-esteem and Ego
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By Eckhart Tolle
Published on 03/29/2008
If you're shy, then what you fear is to be found wanting. So because you're afraid of that, whatever the disapproval
or the criticism would represent an injury of your mentally made sense
of self which is the ego.