acorn figures inner people

• what matters is that you have an acorn in you, you are a certain person, and that person begins to appear early in your life, but it’s there all the way through your life.
• The form of those people, the figures, are already there. You want to strengthen those figures as you go along.
• You don’t know what’s going to happen but you feel the people in you. That’s how you’re designed, if the culture or your family hasn’t demolished that way of feeling when you’re very young.

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