In a similar vein I think these lines from T.S.Eliot's poem "The Hollow Men" beautifully expresses one's struggles with the self: Between the idea And the

In a similar vein I think these lines from T.S.Eliot's poem "The Hollow Men" beautifully expresses one's struggles with the self: Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the shadow Between the conception And the creation Between the emotion And the response Falls the shadow Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow