While talking to Polle de Maagt today, one sentence sprang up: “If you know who you are it is easy to adapt, because you know your boundaries and so the environment provides no threat.”
When you are lost in identity, you try to hang on to whatever you have and whatever is foreign is a threat. But when you are not lost or searching, whatever is foreign imposes no threat anymore. Basically, if you are confident of yourself, it is less easy to feel warped.
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Oct 1st, 2007 at 9:15 pm
“If you know who you are it is easy to adapt, because you know your boundaries and so the environment provides no threat.�
Well said! It remains one of the fundamental questions of our existence: “Who am I?” But the more we recognize who we are on a very deep level (and live by that), the more authentic we become. I think that the result of that is, that we both better fit into the greater scheme and at the same time become more self-reliant. A goal worth aspiring for! -lila