When you begin to create an inner poise, you are always connected to this center…it’s an umbilical cord that the more you are aware of it, you more you practice living from that center, the more you are able to conduct yourself in your daily life from that center. The outer is slowly unnoticeably, becoming your inner. The gap is closing. The concentric circles of becoming are narrowing as the movement is now directed not outside of you but inside of you.

It is far too simplistic to state that you gained your identity of who you consider yourself to be from your parents, religion, or the educational system, and yet most people can certainly recount specific incidences in which their identity was affected in one way or another in one or more of those three environments. But, of course, there’s a lot more going on. Your identity is almost certainly going to be intertwined with reference points outside of yourself.