What is your Reality?
Woman with wax tablets and stylus (so-called “Sappho”)
Your thinking becomes your reality.
When you think you are an animal, then you become just like an animal. But it doesn't mean that it's true, that you are an animal. It only means that your faith in your animal-nature is strong enough to mold your reality.
It could still be totally wrong, just as any conviction you hold that you have not tested for yourself but merely adopted from your environment.
You have to make yourself free from any convictions that you have not proven to yourself – only then you will be able to find truth.