not try to shave or powder the face in the mirror. We let the mirror guide our hands to our own face to do the job. Even though we never see our face directly, with a mirror we can behave as though we do. In the same manner, we can use projections to help us to determine those things about ourselves that we do not know and cannot see directly.

COURAGE AND HONESTY NEEDED

In order to be able to use projection successfully we must have the greatest courage and the deepest honesty. It is not easy to face up to some of the things that we are, which we project upon others. The habit of blaming is too deeply ingrained in us to allow us to do this easily. Strangely enough, facing the negative qualities does not require as much courage as facing the positive potential that lies within us. When wo see a person as a self-assured leader with a real personal integrity, it is most difficult to see ourselves that way and to bring those qualities out into actual existence. It is too easy to say, "I can't do that, or be that way".

The use of projections to discover our own unconscious potential requires a great deal of searching. We might be very generous with our worldly goods and time, yet hate stingy people. By definition, hating stingy people involves the projection of a quality that lies deep within us. We could show all kinds of evidence that we are not stingy, and the evidence could be very genuine. But it is also possible that a closer examination might reveal the person to be stingy with love and affection. We must remember that it is the quality that we project, not the manner in which it is manifested. For the most part, a strong emotional reaction to some quality or characteristic in another person is evidence of the existence of this quality in the observer. The healing process take s place when there is recognition of this quality within the person, and he makes every effort to keep it conscious and not allow it to operate to his detriment. In other words, he deals with it within himself instead of attributing it to another, even though it may also lie in the other. This is applying the principle we are familiar with in the case of the mirror. The person shaves or powders his own face instead of the face in the mirror.

Most of the difficulties wo get into result from qualities or characteristics of which we are unconscious. While we might

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