There is no sense in talking about “being true to yourself,” until you are sure of which voice you are being true to.
People who dream of wearing their parent’s glasses are not seeing with their own eyes. The old frame has to be broken. Without our own unique inner vision we become stuck in obsolete patterns.
If we cannot imagine it… we cannot manifest it. If a basketball player cannot imagine making the basket… he will not be able to make the basket. Imagination is the realm between the five senses and the intellect… for which we have no language. It is in that space, however, that true creativity takes place. All that we experience in world of the intellect and all that we experience through the world of the senses has its origins in that liminal space of imagination, play, and creativity.