In this incantation, I realize that my resistance to truth in others stems from the fact that I am both the creator and observer. Since I created the characters and their insights, there is no need to feel envious or threatened by their truths—they are all my own creation.
I habitually dismiss anything I see in thirdself that hints at the truth I am searching for. “I want to discover it myself”, I say. I feel threatened when I encounter the truth in thirdself.
But if I am the creator, then I have created all these thirdself characters and their supposed creations, haven’t I? If I wrote the characters that move about my secondself imagination and thirdself spaces, then am I not also responsible for every one of their creations? If I see the truth of my own being depicted in thirdself in a way that feels right, why would I feel envious and territorial when it is I who created that person? When it is I who in turn created all that person’s depictions?
I must not feel competitive with the characters I have created. Anything that they will show me, I have created. If I see a better way to say something in thirdself, I did that.
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