Integrating change into one’s composite of self-definition.
Adapting to the changes within and the new categories of experience that result.
How judgment—and detachment from it—affects your experience of reality.
| p251 | One need make no apology for one’s newfound reluctance to engage in activities and interactions that had come to be expected of you by others. Now, there is simply not the inclination to participate in group situations that once seemed enjoyable. The tendency becomes increasingly that of choosing aloneness over the companionship of others that had always been taken for granted as a way of life. One comes to regard one’s own company as profoundly gratifying, and the time one chooses to spend interacting with others begins to diminish. One becomes attuned to one’s own inner world and is drawn to withdrawing to the sanctity of that space at every opportunity. |