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If I draw a circle, most people, when asked what I have drawn, will say I have drawn a circle or a disc, or a ball. Very few people will say I've drawn a hole in the wall, because most people think of the inside first, rather than thinking of the outside. But actually these two sides go together--you cannot have what is 'in here' unless you have what is out there.

Alan Watts - British Philosopher

That is to say that we are a product of our environments, that the very nature of ‘I’ is rooted in ‘Where’. That our culture, our formative years, our social environment and the physical environments we inhabit are inseparable from the self. This is how we make changes, by recognising first the ‘wheres’ that aren’t working for us.

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