The fortress of sufferring

There is an inner fortress.

This fortress is constructed from beliefs, assumptions, cultural conditioning, anxieties, moral conscience, phobias, guilts, personalities of other selves and so on.

The majority of our time is spent dwelling on the contents of the fortress.

Although constant dwelling on the fortress is the cause of the majority of our psychological sufferings, we  fear anything which can destroy the fortress.

Cause we believe that the fortress keeps us safe.

This fortress has a name.

Its called the self.