You must be prepared to look for evidence of compulsive aspects of identity and you must be prepared to take responsibility for them. You must also be prepared to look at your past with a new sense of responsibility, so that instead of feeling powerless or blaming others for how you are, you can accept that your life is as it is because you have willingly determined it to be that way. In doing so, you gain absolute power to create a different life for yourself.

This knowledge can set you free. For if you have done something to bring about your present life, you can also bring about desired changes. If it is others who are responsible for how you are, then you can have no positive effect over your life whatsoever.

And for any of your observations to have effect you must be prepared to seek the truth about yourself, even if it means facing up to aspects of yourself that you may initially find unpleasant...