Detaching from the details of “the illusion.”
Attaining the vantage point of the witness.
| p318 | You don’t mean to be untrustworthy. For naturally, at this stage of your transformation process, you see yourself as a high-principled being who makes choices that are conscious. Yet given the opportunity, you would not hesitate in cheating on yourself, even ever so slightly, with a food or a substance or an activity that you had promised yourself was off-limits. You may feel justified in shifting the blame for the breech of trust to any number of perfectly plausible excuses, yet what remains is the responsibility for the action taken—which can be no other than your own. |