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The ball is a symbol of your courage, strength and confidence to face things in life.

What is Confidence?
The concept of confidence exists *only* within the egoic realm. Only the ego needs some kind of assurance in one’s own abilities or in the successful outcome of a future event. Sadly, what most people think of as “confidence” is really arrogance, and ironically, insecurity. It’s insecurity disguised as its polar opposite. The worst definition of “confidence” I’ve heard is one of “walking with your chest out”, when posture, in reality, is determined by the core musculature.

When you transcend the ego and dwell in the formless realm, that whole concept becomes entirely meaningless. There is no self-esteem because there is no real self and because it doesn’t matter what someone else *thinks* of you. There is no worrying about the outcome of a future event because there is no future, only the present moment. When you dwell in the present moment, you almost don’t care what happens because you trust in whatever happens, you’re aligned with it.

What comes closest to the concept of “real confidence”, on the level of form and ego, is *knowing yourself* and *being yourself* … know your strengths and weaknesses, accept them, admit them to yourself and others, and work with them. When you’re in tune with yourself, you don’t have a continual need to show off or put others down. On the contrary, true confidence brings with it, humility. That is true confidence, if you have to define that term.