I invite you to pause your reading here and think for a moment about what all this really means for you. As a baby, your very survival depended on your parents (or whoever was responsible for caring for you). So, like everyone, you naturally expected those people to have your best interests at heart.
Accordingly, you heard whatever they said and observed whatever they did as the absolute truth about how we should all be.
So, if they told you that you are the best thing that ever came into their lives, you believed it, just as you would believe it if they told you that you were the curse of their lives. How could we ever believe otherwise? We simply accept this early experience as truth, because we have nothing else to compare it with.
And we might even accept certain absolute...
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