For many of our hosts, the better they feel about their hosting, the better they feel about themselves as a human.

Sometimes a complex that shows itself as a personality problem is resolved into a spiritual dedication much greater in scope. The solution is the enlargement and perfecting of a small personal issue into a serious contribution to society.

You not only have to know your limits, but also if you want to be a good therapist, you may have to expand your tolerance. You may have to stretch yourself to be available to more people.

It also helps to have a big vision of your work. You can raise humanity up to a new level of ethical sensitivity. You can help people become more self-contained and purposeful. You can assist people so that they won’t be acting out so much in their everyday lives. You can find the roots of rage and anger and ease jealousies. You could find ways to make your understandings more public and therefore socially therapeutic. You could see yourself, without egotism, as a therapist for the world.

You show your ordinary self, while at the same time creating and sustaining the vessel of therapy. You are both ordinary and skilled.