"What is Real? Real isn't how you are made... it's a
thing that happens to you... it doesn't happen all at once. You become. It
takes a long time... once you are Real you can't become unreal again... it
lasts for always... He thought of those long, sunlit hours in the garden... the
wonderful day when he first knew he was he was Real... of what use was it to be
loved? And a real tear trickled down to the ground... Now you shall be Real to
everyone... going to live forever. Once you are Real you can't be ugly except
to people who don't understand..." - Margery Williams.
Beyond who we understand ourselves to be, beyond all the titles and descriptions is the real person. It takes a long period of concentrated effort to reach this maturation of self. This program requires critical self examination and judgement, to view and accept all the gross inadequacies and imperfections and then through the anvil of experience hammer them all into a whole being. The real living human is one who has walked through fire, evil and hate of the world, tasted the deepest fruits of sin and vice, been absorbed by discrimination and inequality, and ultimately has weighed and measured the length and breadth of themselves and found to be wanting. The recognition of this poverty is emergence, and transformation into a whole and complete human being. And thus this human being is capable of the greatest and most profound love and respect.
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