24/09/2019
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What does it mean to be centred?
In Psychosynthesis, we speak a lot about being centred, and by that we point to the stable, never changing point of pure awareness and will - embedded in all human beings. It is being aware of oneself as a loving observer and when this permanent, unchanging centre has been found, we always know how to come back to oneself, when we have forgotten ourselves in desires, fears and illusions.
The centre is never an object, a subpersonality, a role, a feeling, a sensation, our body; it is never something we can observe because we will always be the one who observes. It is such a simple and essential truth.
Assagioli in his wonderful conversation with students (The Self; A Unifying Centre) said the following: “there is something in us that is not identified, that does not change with the changing states of mind, that remains always the same, fixed, unassailable. This is our real “I”, the center or our individuality, the real substance of our being.” Read here: https://kennethsorensen.dk/en/the-self-a-unifying-center/
In his interview with Sam Keen, Assagioli stated the following:
“At the heart of the self there is both an active and a passive element, an agent and a spectator. Self-consciousness involves our being a witness – a pure, objective, loving witness – to what is happening within and without. In this sense the self is not a dynamic in itself but is a point of witness, a spectator, an observer who watches the flow. But there is another part of the inner self – the will-er or the directing agent – that actively intervenes to orchestrate the various functions and energies of the personality, to make commitments and to instigate action in the external world. So, at the centre of the self there is a unity of masculine and feminine, will and love, action and observation.”
You can read the interview here: https://kennethsorensen.dk/en/the-golden-mean-of-roberto-assagioli/