.. for the sake of conforming to the social persona…
That is why, truly, we live our lives in great poverty; we die and pass away having lived only a very, very small part of what we could have lived. So this is a tragic condition. Losing our innocence narrows us and makes us shallow; that is, there is a loss in our three-dimensionality.
We grow narrow, and we see life through our own narrow frame of understanding and comprehension. We cannot become aware of the possibilities in our lives. As far as our mind reaches, or as far as our knowledge reaches, within the frame of our knowledge we think we are choosing certain possibilities. This is narrowing.
Shallowing. We have no time to deepen, and we have no energy, no strength, to deepen. Because we are lazy toward life, we make do with bits of information picked up from here and there, with shallow scraps of knowledge, with hearsay, or with knowledge filled out by Google. This is a shallowing.
The third dimension: we live compressed. What is “compressed”? If you are tall and you enter a low house, you bend. In life there is no height; but you are constantly being pressed down, into narrow spaces, compressed. You cannot see the sky; you cannot see the infinity of the sky.