Probably almost all of us have a voice inside the head that are telling us this and that. Almost as if we are carrying around some kind of authority, who at least in my case from time to time poisons my life and happiness.
It seems like an outside authority telling me to do this and that, to behave like this and not like that, because the ides came from the outside. I was not born with this judging voice...
But, what if the I, or the self, that I think I am, is the same as this imagined authority? What if my own mind is the imagined authority?