“A part of your innermost being is developed and governs your thinking, feeling, willing, and acting. There are other parts still in a lower state of development, which also govern and influence your thinking, feeling, will, and acting. Thus you find yourself divided, and this always creates tension, pain, anxiety, and inner and outer difficulties. Some aspects of your personality are in truth, others in error and distortion.

It is exactly the same law and principle when it comes to the unity or, respectively, to the dissension between outwardly separated and totally different entities… The dissension is not caused by actual different units of consciousness but, just as in the inner dissensions of one person, by different aspects of development of the manifesting universal consciousness. The principle of unification is exactly the same. Yet this principle cannot be executed with another human being unless it has first been applied to one’s inner self. If the divergent parts of a self are not approached according to this truth and ambivalence not faced, accepted, and understood within a self, the process of unification cannot be put into practice with another person. This is a very important fact, which explains the great emphasis of this Pathwork on the primary approach to oneself. Only then can relationship be cultivated in a meaningful and effective way.” (PL #180)