Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom,and power. Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotionalanchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.Guidance means your source of direction in life. Encompassed by your map, yourinternal frame of reference that interprets for you what is happening out there, arestandards or principles or implicit criteria that govern moment-by-moment decision-making and doing.Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of howthe various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment,discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, an integrated wholeness.Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.It is the vital energy to make choices and decisions. It also includes the capacity toovercome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.

Manypeople who give mechanically or refuse to give and share in their marriages and familiesmay never have experienced what it means to possess themselves, their own sense ofidentity and self-worth

If you aren’t visibly producing, you aren’t worthy. In this context, taking time to lie dormant feels greedy, even wasteful.

You want your reward to give you greater awareness, greater affinity with life and a greater sense of your value and purpose in the world--not the value and purpose that you invent for your own delights, but the value and purpose that are intrinsic to your being here. This value cannot be exhausted. It will not leave you and will only grow as greater attention, time and energy are devoted to its expression and experience.

When you come to terms with your past, and realize that you’ve had accomplishments both then and now, you’ll also develop this sense of self-worth.