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your adult feelings of panic and insecurity are

presently built. If, when you were a child, you

couldn’t get yourself loved unconditionally,

you will inevitably spend most of your adult

energy building up a personality structure –

that is, an ego – strong enough to permanently

suppress those aspects of yourself that you

presently perceive as being unacceptable.

Growing up in an imperfect world is a process

we have all had to go through. But if ever you

are to free yourself from a life-long shuttling

between what you have been conditioned to

see yourself as, and what you really are – the

‘either-or’ dilemma from which all your

present personal problems arise – you’ll need

to integrate the split between your acquired,

false ego and your true, authentic self. Your

present, non-ideal state of being, by definition,

exists in only two dimensions. But in order to

change it into a three-dimensional,

geometrical figure, it needs a third element: a