Transcending the self is the ultimate liberation from your emotional and mental limitations. By attentively observing your own behavior — physical, emotional, and mental — freedom comes within reach.Why do we react automatically in ways that no longer serve us? Worse still, ways that are downright counterproductive. And how can we break through these emotional and mental algorithms without getting entangled in endless self-analysis?This book offers a clear path from observation to transformation, toward a transcending of the self. By attentively observing how we shape reality through our perception, develop emotional algorithms, and assign meaning, a fundamental insight emerges:The 'self' we defend so automatically is itself a limiting construct - one that can be transcended!Through theory and practical applications of perception, attention, and awareness, through unmasking and dismantling reactivity, you learn not only to know yourself, but to become free of the limitations of that self.Across 12 themes, we explore the essence and realization of inner freedom, and the obstacles you may encounter in manifesting this freedom in daily life.Each of the theme chapters opens with an Introduction and closes with Integration Exercises - because insight without application remains theory.The truth is absolutely relative. And precisely because of that, absolutely liberating.