| T3:3.2 | All of your personal characteristics are nothing more than a persona that has served the ego faithfully. All of your traits have been chosen either in accordance with the ego's desires or in opposition to them. Whether they be in accord or in opposition, their source has still been the ego. These traits, whether you see them as good or bad or somewhere in between are what you have seen as making you loveable or unlovable. Yet you have also often made them challenges to love, saying in effect to those who love you, “Love me in spite of these traits that are not loveable and then I will know your love is true.” You make this same statement to yourself as well, seemingly called to continuously challenge your own lovability. |