"But don't try to be yourself. That's another role. It's called 'natural spontaneous me.' As soon as you are trying to be this or that, you are playing a role.  'Just be yourself' is good advice. But it can also be misleading. The mind will come in and say, 'Let's see. How can I be myself?' Then the mind will develop some kind of strategy: 'How to be myself?' Another role. 'How can I be myself?' is, in fact, the wrong question. It implies you have to do something to be yourself. But how doesn't apply here because you are yourself already.  Just stop adding unnecessary baggage to who you already are.  'But I don't know who I am. I don't know what it means to be myself.' If you can be absolutely comfortable with not knowing who you are, then what's left is who you are---the Being behind the human, a field of pure personality rather than something that is already defined.

Give up defining yourself---to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life. And don't be concerned how others define you. They are limiting themselves, so it's their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don't be there as function or a role, but as a field of conscious Presence."