You subscribe to the ideathat the formative years...create the beginning of a patternthat goes throughout your life?Yes. I would saythat the first five years of our livesshapes the personality structurein such a waythat any kind of spiritual workthat you're gonna do later......is going to involvelooking back at the patternsthat were set downin your family of origin.There's no way to avoid that?No. Because, think about it...I mean, anything that you werereinforced for in a positive way,you're gonna lock inas the way a person should be.So if people thought you, um...were especially wonderful if you broughtMommy the diaper for the new baby,then that's gonna tend to make youmore responsible.Maybe more responsiblethan you ever tended to be.Maybe super responsibleor maybe compulsively responsible.-Right.-So you start with where you are,but if you don't go backand see what's real and what's not real,then you're missing your way into reality,which is what spirituality is all about,as far as I'm concerned.It's distinguishing what's realfrom what's not real.And that's why a teacher is needed,and the teacher needs to bedevoted to truth.
- the formative years build who you will be for the rest of your life
- any healing work that you'll do later in life requires looking back at the formative years
- a teacher needs to be devoted to truth