"We are most of us floundering through life, still growing, and the hardest thing to hold is what your idea of your real self is. Always present are the thoughts, 'Who am I?' *What do I stand for?' 'What is my way?' It is fun to dig into yourself, but it can also be a serious and oftentimes discouraging process. For if you study yourself, you will find out many things that seem mysterious, silly or stupid to you."

"There is a lot of material stored away in the unconscious. You can't understand yourself unless you understand your irrational doings. Many things we do are done through compulsion. For instance, one of my patints spent most of his time folding his shirts and seeing that they were neatly in line in his drawers. This was a compulsion with him. We all have these deep drives and often are completely unaware of them.

"The unconscious is loaded with memories and you are constantly keying in. It is like a bank vault and the key is any phrase, word, or situation which unlocks the long-forgotten memory. The trick is to remember these things that you key in on and try to discover which of your habits this me mory was the originator of, and go on from there."

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Dr. Baker also pointed out that you should learn to take out your resentments on those responsible for them. wise you will eventually take them out on yourself.

"Most of the things you feel guilty about are the things you've been told were wrong. It is fantastic the things we carry around within ourselves, forever chastising ourselves for real or fancied guilts. We wouldn't treat a little yellow dog the way we treat ourselves.

"Within each of us is the eternal child, and that is the part that needs help. We must get down to the child level within ourselves in order to cope with ourselves. We all have many sides, like a diamond, and many times the child self makes a monkey out of us. The job of all of us is to get all our selves together into a reasonably going concern."

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