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imagine as being ‘you’ - that which makes you

regard yourself as special – is not something

you have the power to wilfully manipulate but

is simply the random result of the interaction

between the environment in which you

presently find yourself and your physical and

psychic inheritance. To finally achieve peace

and authenticity, you need to go with the flow

and immerse yourself in the ever-changing and

fluid world-flux in which we all swim.

To find out how you’ve arrived at where you

find yourself right now, you need to go back to

earliest childhood. As an infant, although you

were labelled with a given name just a few

days after you were born, it would have taken

about eighteen months before you were able

to identify yourself with that name. Before

that, first gurgling in your cot and then

experimenting with movement, you had no

perception of yourself as a separate being.

Then, gradually, you would have begun to