This all sounds pretty abstract. So what does it mean for us? What would seem to be either me or not-me can actually be both. And it can be neither. I can be precisely that which I thought I was not. I am one with what I thought was not me. I am both. “I” include both me the person, and the world, which seems not to be me. That’s because there is a

think that our lives would be diminished by the loss of any aspect of ourselves. If I were to idealize anything, it would not be living without subpersonalities, it would be having free access to all the possibilities within a human being.