Ra Uru Hu (Post 127) Perfection: Experiencing the Highest Levels Possible of Awareness
The reality is that not only do you not get it for long, but it's not yours. It seems like that, doesn't it? When you're so deeply identified with a nature of your life that there is an assumption that all of this is you and you're responsible for it. Oh, you're never responsible for it, not at all. We are passenger consciousness; we are here to experience at the highest levels possible of awareness what it is to be. That's our perfection.
To be able to do that is to be able to perfect the form. In other words, to be able to give us something we have never had in our entire history as a species, which is the freedom from the fears, the fundamental and mundane fears of survival. Remember that the deep, deep fear of survival that rules humanity is a seven-centered illness. It's a byproduct of the seven-centered strategic way of controlling the world, of becoming the top of the food chain. It is not us. It's not what nine-centered beings are.
I have been telling you, we are not here, despite everything that you see in the world around you, we are not here to be concerned for our survival; we are not. There is no need for us to apply our intelligence to our survival, our Personality intelligence. There is no way that our mind is going to be able to provide for us in that way. We don't have to be concerned with that. It is not our priority. As a matter of fact, being concerned with that is a malady.
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(Post 128) The Homogenized World is Ignorant
The homogenized world lives in a profound ignorance, a truly profound ignorance, and a profound ignorance that is emboldened by its enormous vanity that it assumes that it is in control of this and that, in control of your own life, in control of destiny, in control of what's going on; and if not in control, working at it. And not for a moment do you understand that suddenly that day that you have the ability to do this or that, that moment that something comes through to you that brings this or that, the assumption that you are the one responsible, and you're not, and you don't know it.
The vast majority of human beings walking around out there do not understand that they are deeply, deeply programmed. You can hear them speak the keynotes. Oh, that was one of my favorite things—watch the talking heads doing the news on TV on any given day, watch the program, see where the activations are, look at the keynotes of the gates and the lines that are there in the program and turn on your TV and listen to them come out of people's mouths. And in their assumption, in their vanity, in their ignorance it's these are my thoughts, these are my words, these are my motivations, these are my actions, these are my, my, my, my.
Well, it's not. The Program behind me, this is the Program. This is the Program sticking its little fingers into everybody, you cannot escape it. You can't. Oh, there may be that very, very, very rare day that nothing that's there in the Program really directly impacts you, but it's rare. You don’t pay any attention to it. You don't think of yourself as being something that is always conditioned. You don't. You think of yourself as being in control of your life. You're not a puppet on a string, are you? Are you?
If you're not aware of the Program, oh boy, you are. Oh, yes you are. Look at it. You have the sun today in the 6th gate, the gate of Conflict, the gate of Conflict opened up to the possibility of intimacy. So, let's say that you're somebody that has the 59th gate and you don't have the 6. Today you have it. And that means that today is a day where you're likely to become intimate with somebody that you shouldn't be intimate with. And you'll think it's all so perfect. Oh how wonderful it is, oh how close I feel to this person, yeah, yeah. And you think it's you. You do.
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(Post 129) Intelligence is About Readiness
This is what intelligence is all about, is readiness. And it’s readiness for not what it is. It’s readiness for something else, for anything else. It is that very readiness that is able to pick up things long before anyone else. It is this very readiness that ultimately is going to carry with it elements into the gift of what the 2nd line is about, because it is a gift. What ultimately we come to see in the script as the natural. Because this readiness, by the time it gets to the surface in a sense becomes a talent, a talent that doesn't need or seek explanation or understanding or sensing or knowing? not an investigator.
In the Personality side it’s something else, particularly when you see it through what 2nd Color is. This jump from the cognitive archetype down below, this cognitive archetype that is ready for what doesn't or isn't yet there or present. It’s hard to describe how incredible that it is. It is the root of what we call curiosity. It is the source of genius. It is this ability to be able to realize that there's something else.
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(Post 130) The 57/10: Behavior Guided by Awareness
All right, so that‘s what the 34 brings us. Let's look and see what the 57 brings us. We've already seen the archetype. But the 57 in integration has another profound relationship and that's to the 10th gate. And of course, the 10th gate, Treading, treading on the tail of the tiger, beware; well, it‘s the gate of behavior. It is not just simply the gate of behavior, because it is a vessel gate which is the potential to love oneself. And to love oneself displayed through the quality of one's behavior. This is not simply behavior in the sense that one is behaving according to the demands and needs or the projections of the other.
Remember that in integration we are dealing with something that is deeply selfish and that the life force is only interested in one thing, survival. This is all about survival. It is the correct behavior for survival. And again, this is the intuition brought to this. It is behavior guided by awareness. This we call perfected form, behavior guided by awareness, and behavior that is guided by awareness in response.
Your behavior is relative to the environment. If you're walking through a jungle full of dangerous animals, you don't wear bright clothes and carry a boom buster loud sound system on your shoulder blaring away. You‘re going to die. Behavior isn‘t something that is set. You learn that in the 10.1. The foundation of behavior is to know how to behave in different circumstances. It's how you survive.
It's one of those classic images of changes in the nature of warfare where you had all of these armies in the 18th century that were still following these sort of ritualized “We‘re all going to stand in line and we‘re all going to sing our songs and we‘re all going to step at the same time and set up at the same time.” And all of a sudden there were people coming out of the shrubbery and shooting them in the back. They didn‘t know how to change their behavior to conform to the situation so they died.
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(Post 131) Life is a Creative Process
This is about understanding that there is beauty in us. That life is a creative process. It‘s not fixed in stone. It isn‘t. It is this incredible pulsating unfolding. The moment that you‘re disengaged, because you have to be, you can't allow your mind to take away from you this chance now. Are you going to wait for your next life, you‘re going to bet on that you‘re getting one? Individuality says: Now. Mutation says: Now. Now is forever; now. And it's all about the struggle with the mind. It‘s why the whole nature of being is about struggle, struggle, struggle, struggle. And it's this mind that gets in the way.
Homogenization strips you of whatever possible purpose or spirit can be found in your life. These forces become negated by the not-self mind. They just do. And the mind is so beautiful. After all, it is the most delightful gift of the vehicle to us as passengers. The facility we have for this so-called self-reflected consciousness. It is unbelievable, this mind. And its potential is even more unbelievable, because its potential has been locked behind millennia and millennia and millennia of conditioning, fear conditioning. Old seven-centered fear conditioning; the fear for survival— get to the top of the ladder, control everything, defend yourself.
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(Post 132) Human Design is for Children
If we don’t teach our Projector children the beauty of their gift and how they can take that bitter taste out of their mouth—all Projector children come into the world to be a success. They do, truly. And so quickly that becomes bitterness for them. You can see that everything about bringing Type and Strategy into the world, I’ve had to do this through adults, but it’s for children. It’s only an adult that I say, “You have to go through a seven year deconditioning process. You have to have some kind of cellular regeneration. You have to unload all that stuff.” But that’s a burden already. And for many, psychologically it’s very difficult to unburden oneself from the deep conditioning that one has experienced in one’s life. This knowledge is for children.
You can see the fragility of Manifestor and Projector children. They are truly fragile. By the way, Generators are poorly raised, but they are not fragile. They are the life force. They’ll plow through a whole lifetime of frustration. They do all the time. But the fragility that is there in the non-Sacral and that you have to get to them early, that it’s so important to get to them early.
I don’t want to suggest that you don’t pay attention to the adults. As a matter of fact, it’s the only way you can save the children. But it’s about realizing what this knowledge is actually about. It is knowledge that you’re supposed to be able to give to your children when they come into the world. In other words, it’s foundation knowledge. It’s like learning how to read and write. You learn about yourself and you learn how to operate correctly as yourself. And you’re nurtured and you’re guided by the forces that are responsible for you in your incarnation. It’s not about trying to heal beings that have been deeply conditioned and have suffered and all of that is deeply ingrained in them, that they are in relationships that are incorrect, and on and on and on and on. It really is about kids. My thing for adult Projectors is study. It’s why Jovian has a Projector endowment because no other Type has more responsibility to investigate and study this knowledge than Projectors. And for the Projector adult, in fact, the very study, much more than their Strategy and Authority that takes time to mature in their process, that the study itself is so liberating for them. It just is. They are able to put into perspective what has happened to them in their life.
They’re able to understand for the first time what their mechanism is. And that is something that through the self-recognition opens up the possibility for the Projector that they can see that life does not have to be something that is bitter. That there is, in fact, the potential in them for success and that they need to simply master the process.
And with Projectors in my life, what I do is I encourage them to study deeper and deeper. It’s so healing for them. But in the end, we have to see that we have to make sure that when we know adults who have Projector children, or we have Projector children in our lives, that we do everything in our power to awaken their attention to the mechanics, because that for them, giving them the gift of truly being able to recognize, that is what will be transforming in their lives.
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(Post 133) Individual Channels Have the Chemistry of Melancholy
The 28/38 is an individual channel. And individual channels carry a certain chemistry. The chemistry is the chemistry of melancholy. It's actually a binary. The muse is melancholy. Individuality by its very nature is creative. On one side of that creativity is the byproduct of the chemistry which we call generally speaking art. But the other side of that chemistry is something much darker, something we call melancholy, something we call sadness. It is very, very natural for anyone who carries individual definition to be melancholic. It is not unhealthy. The dilemma for the individual is to transform the melancholy into productivity. In other words, to transform that chemistry into an expression that is creative.
So think about that person, always wanted to be a writer, tried, tried, tried. And all of a sudden comes along a transit like this in which suddenly they're filled with this creative melancholic energy. And in their despair of not being able to do it they suddenly burst out with creativity and they start the great novel and two days later, it's over, because it didn't belong to them. And they think that there's something wrong with them. But then again, they've always been trying to find something that isn't them so that they can be something that is not what they are. Human beings are so odd, the way they work.
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(Post 134) Genetic Highlighting
This goes back to something very basic. One of the things I was mentioning before the class started, I discovered the actual time when Watson and Crick realized they had discovered DNA structure [February 21, 1953, noon, Cambridge, England]. Human Design is a science of differentiation deeply related to genetics and indebted to genetics in the I’Ching, in that sense.
When you’re looking at the database there’s something for you to grasp. You’re not looking at anything other than genetic highlighting. The bodygraph has all 64 gates. It has all of the codons; it has the whole genetic matrix. What you see in your own Design, what you see in the Personality, what you see in the Design, this is where your genetics are highlighted. But every place that’s open, it’s not like you lack that in your body; you’d be dead. This represents receptors to those that are highlighted in a different way.
If you want to think about the genetics in Human Design it’s not so much at the data, it’s looking at this incredible bodygraph. This is the story. Because what you see in your bodygraph is the potential in you to be different from everyone else. And what is unactivated in your bodygraph is everything else. It is the whole genetic matrix; it’s all there.
Here in the bodygraph we see our relationship to the genetic whole. We see our difference, how different we can be as an organism and how the whole has such power over us, and so it should. It is the whole wheel that is the life configuration mechanism. And we need to be connected to everything, but as ourselves. Not that what we are not becomes who we are, but who we are becomes more and more perfected, more and more differentiated as we progress in our process.
So, Personality and Design are extraordinary. But when you’re looking at somebody’s Design, it’s the bodygraph that tells you the story. This is the pallet; this is the place where it’s all laid out. This is the perfection. It’s the most extraordinary thing, this bodygraph.
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(Post 135) Live Your Definition
If you’re going to live out this life as yourself you have to live your Definition. This is what you’re here for. We make it simple in a way. We say, “Look, ok, here’s your Strategy, here’s your Authority, so you don’t have to think about it because your Strategy and Authority is based on your Definition. It’s going to live through that Definition, express itself through that Definition.”
But I’m a teacher of self-love. It’s an essential ingredient. If you’re going to have any kind of transcendence in this life you need to be able to stand before the mirror, and not the mundane mirror on the wall, but the mirror that you can always put in front of you and stand before that mirror and love what you see. The only place that you find that love is in your Definition. This is what makes you unique, special, and different. This is the potential of your glory, your beauty, your truth, whatever it may be. It’s in the Definition.
And when you begin to live out your Definition and when you begin to see it flourish, when you take away responsibility in this life from the mind and you allow your Strategy to move you, you get to see that you’re worthy of love, and you are. Whenever anyone talks about love, I’m not Mr. New Age and I’m certainly not schmaltzy; these kinds of things can just turn into propaganda and claptrap. For me, self-love is the first love. If you don’t get there, all the other ones are just measurement.
To love yourself is an ordeal for most human beings. Human beings don’t like themselves because of the nature of their openness, because they live in inconsistent, conditioned Definitions all the time, because there is no stability, because they don’t seem to have what they think they’re supposed to have, and because that mirror they can hold up is never, never, never fulfilled. This is not a mirror that says “I love myself.” This is a mirror that says, “I know what’s wrong, I know what’s missing, I know what I need, I know what I should have, I know what I don’t like about myself, I know all these things.”
I was astonished when I began my work as a professional that I met so much self- dislike and self-hatred. This is the great malaise of the not-self—human beings walking around who do not think well of themselves, including the 30 plus percent that are Ego beings who just simply put out the facade. The fact is that the not-self is an unhappy creature and an unfulfilled creature.
It’s why it’s worthy to pay attention, not simply to Definition as the bedrock upon which we build the chart and we get to see the nature of the Strategy and Authority, but to really grasp that it is your uniqueness. This is the thing than I hope you really get is that because it is so finite, because it is such an extraordinary connection, that this quantum that is there in this channel, this is the uniqueness that is you. And that it needs to be expressed purely and you can only express it when you’re expressing it out of what it builds for you.
It’s one of the most fascinating things to think about in terms of Definition is that Definition builds the platform upon which we achieve Strategy and Authority. It sets it all up. It gives you the tools you need in order to be able to experience this life as yourself. And when you think now about Definition, it’s not that I’m suggesting to you that you don’t think about the gates that obviously make up the aspects of the channel, but I want you want be able to meditate and focus on the channel itself as something separate. When you think about the channel, think about it in terms of its keynote and its Design. That’s the place to begin.
And it’s also the thing that is going to be recognized in you. It’s not like this person’s 59 or this person’s 6 are going to be recognized by others. It isn’t. It’s the quantum that’s going to be recognized. It’s the channel that is going to have its impact. It’s the channel that is going to be put into the other. This is you. It’s your uniqueness. And if the frequency is not correct, think about the distortion that you’re going to get back from the other, because you will.
When you look at a chart, look at the Definition. See what’s there, see who’s there just through the channels; just look at the channels, nothing else. Run those keynotes through your head, loop them together in different ways, play with the Design, and just think about them. Because if you can do that, if you can just focus on the channel you’re going to catch exactly what that other being puts into you and everyone else. You catch a glimpse of them. It’s the beginning of recognizing who they are. You want to know who you are? You begin with your Definition. That’s where you being. It’s what tells the story.
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(Post 136) Dualism
When you look at a human being within the context of Human Design, the first thing that makes Human Design unusual to begin with is this binary calculation, this extremely dualistic mechanical structure, the dual consciousness—Personality consciousness, Design consciousness. Everything about Human Design is dualistic. And the dualism is not dualism in the flat two-dimensional sense, but it really is juxtaposition. In other words, it is the juxtaposing of „this and that” in order to be able to establish a larger whole, a whole that is greater than the sum of the parts.
And wherever you look within Human Design you see the emergence of this, the very construct of what we are. That is, these two databases, 88 degrees of the movement of the Sun apart, are somehow held together in this illusion. They are the juxtaposition that brings about the quantum, the whole that’s greater than the sum of the parts that we call the life. And the way in which the whole inner mechanism of the bodygraph operates is that it operates on this principle. That is, it operates on a quantum principle, it operates on juxtaposition. If you juxtapose activation in the 52 with activation in the 9, viola, all of sudden there it is. The quantum emerges and you have concentration, determination and fixed wiring at a very, very specific, very, very limited way.
Then you can start understanding that the only person who will ever, in a sense, understand your channels is you when you live them as they were intended to be lived, as the foundation upon which you base your life. It goes back to the very simplest teachings of Human Design. When you first introduce a bodygraph to someone, Definition— I must have said it thousands of times, look, you have an activation at one end of the channel and you have an activation at the other end of the channel and what you get out of that is what we call Definition and this is fixed, consistent and reliable. And it is extraordinarily and uniquely you.
You can line up 25, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70 people with this channel, the 59/6, I guarantee you that they’re all different, unless the cards are stacked against me, and there’s great good fortune in twins or something. Even then with most twins rarely have I ever seen anything that escapes the Base. We’re all different. These channels are all different. And we have to be careful about the way in which we look at a channel as some kind of fixed structure that we can simply put a label on. Because we can’t, we only have the generic. What we’re waiting for is the unique, the differentiated.
When you begin to think about what the activations are at either end, when you begin to understand how finite that is, the Base to the Tone to the Color, then you can begin to see that in every Definition you have lurks your uniqueness. This is this absolutely very, very fine instruction in the circuitry and it’s such a powerful platform to stand on. And you can, you can rely on it; you can trust it. It is what you’re about. There is nothing wrong in this being’s desire for intimacy, or the intimate experience. As long as it is operating out of the Authority of being an Emotional Generator, then it’s going to be correct. And it’s going to be productive for this being and it’s going to fulfill what is their potential.
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(Post 137) The Manifestor
The Manifestor and the Generator represent very much the energy dynamic of the planet. That is, they are the two so-called energy Types. Obviously together they represent nearly 80% of humanity. It means that we live in a deeply energized plane, or here on this plane to be busy and to do our stuff. Manifestors have a real dilemma. The dilemma for the Manifestor is that they’re so different.
They’re different to begin with because of the nature of the Manifestor aura. The Manifestor has a repelling aura. That repelling aura just blocks everything off. And it can make it extremely difficult for Manifestors to have an intimate and nurturing environment when they are children. It’s very difficult for Manifestor children. They do not have the same kind of connection to their mother or their father, particularly the relationship to the mother. And it is often very difficult, particularly for Generator mothers to have a Manifestor child. There is the Generator mother with her enveloping aura and constantly the child is, in essence, pushing it away.
Something to understand about Manifestor auras is that though they are repelling it does not mean they are impervious, they are not at all. If you can get past the repelling, and of course this is a matter of one’s fractal connection with that particular Manifestor, if you can get past their repelling you can stay in their aura. But of course, generally speaking, the way in which Manifestors influence the other is that because there is this repelling—and understand, basically what happens is when somebody meets the Manifestor aura their own aura retracts, it backs up. And out of that comes a certain kind of psychological approach towards the Manifestor itself.
Everything we know about the Manifestor is that the Manifestor is here to initiate, the deep opposite of the Generator. These are the archetypal doers. Of course, there’s a great joke in all of that, is that everybody else on the planet—Manifestors are about 8% of the population—everybody on the planet has to wait and has to cooperate. So, that immediately makes the Manifestor something that is suspicious,different, and potentially uncontrollable. No child is punished more than the Manifestor child. And I don’t necessarily mean physical abuse; I just mean general punishment, control mechanisms that are placed on them. The classic of the Manifestor child that simply opens the door because it can and goes out and gets lost, being punished and being restricted because it didn’t ask, it wasn’t dependent on the cooperative invited response mechanisms; it’s just being a Manifestor.
There is a dilemma with Manifestors—an odd thing to say about them—is that their Strategy and Authority is just a technique to make life easier for them. It’s not their time. Manifestors had their time long ago. And with the advent of the nine-centered being in 1781, Manifestors went from the top of the ladder to being retired. They’re basically retired, and they’re angry in their retirement. Manifestors are an angry lot. Anger is always there as frustration is always there for the Generator. And understand that anger and frustration are enormously powerful because they are the frequency by-product of energy beings. It’s always in their energy; it’s always in their aura. It can always be pulled out.
So, you have the Manifestor come into the world, and of course what it meets is restraint, constant restraint. And this only increases the level of its anger. Manifestor is the only Type that actually has two strategies: A Strategy for the Manifestor child that lives in their parent?s home, and a Manifestor as adult. The child has to learn to ask permission, which means it has to be taught to ask permission. There is no other way to provide the Manifestor child with an opportunity to feel its power.
And yet, at the same time learn the rule that all Manifestors must learn: that they have to pay attention to the other and they have to find a way to relax the other, to put the other at ease so that they can live out their nature. The Manifestor child that learns to ask permission, if asking permission is not unrealistically denied unfairly, what that Manifestor child will realize is that that asking frees it from the potential of retribution and punishment and then it can go do what it likes.
So that the Manifestor child after being punished for going out the door learns to ask permission—“Can I go out now?” “Yes, and don’t go far,” whatever. And the Manifestor goes out the door and of course once it goes out the door it does what Manifestors do. It can’t really be punished anymore because it asked permission, and so forth and so on.
This is the training of a young Manifestor. I was blessed in my life as a Manifestor. My mother was one of these teach-your-children-manners people. Learning to ask permission was something that was just simply a rule. And I would ask permission. Though, I do remember doing precisely what I wanted once I got out the door; but, nonetheless, I played the game as a Manifestor.
And the Manifestor adult—you can’t go around asking permission any more. It doesn’t work. The secret for a Manifestor adult is to inform. Let them know. The Manifestor sitting on the couch with its lover, it’s one of my favorites, and the Manifestor realizes it doesn’t have any more tobacco and it jumps up and runs out the door; says nothing, just jumps up, runs out the door. And comes back five minutes later, comes back to all hell breaking loose—“What did you do? Where did you go? Why didn’t you tell me,” and on and on and on.
Manifestors have a deep impact on the other. You can look at the repelling aura and think negative, but you can also think positive. When my aura swings through a room, attention gets paid; what to do. It is an impactful aura because other auras are retracting. There is a positive to all of that, and of course for the Manifestor, once the Manifestor understands that they are here to have impact on the other, then they need to pay attention to that other and they need to let them know what’s going on.
The Manifestor that informs relaxes the other, puts the other Types at ease. Good Manifestor, isn’t that nice? They told us what they were going to do before they did it. It’s my joke about the Manifestor driving its truck down the middle of the road and there’s somebody crossing the road. Now, an unaware Manifestor just drives over it. A Manifestor that’s following its Strategy and Authority honks the horn. It doesn’t slow down necessarily; but it does honk the horn. This is what Manifestors are all about. They have to learn how to honk the horn.
The real dilemma for Manifestors is that unlike Generators they’re not gifted with the potential to know themselves or to want to know themselves. They often do not understand how negatively that can be perceived when they are incorrect. It is something that can prove to be very difficult for them because it brings out a kind of isolation and in that isolation this burning of the anger inside.
The real tragedy is that unlike the other Types where you can meet a Generator in the middle of its life and still transform that life, it’s not so easy with Manifestors. Most Manifestor children run away from being at home, run away from the constraints, swear that they will never be controlled or punished again. They’re not likely to be ready for this kind of transformation. I’m always surprised when Manifestors show up, because in fact it’s a sign they are very lucky. Most Manifestor children, by the time they reach adulthood, basically the line, the story has been drawn for them. So teach them young.
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(Post 138) Characteristics do not Matter when Living Out Your Purpose
We’re talking both the fulfillment of purpose. Everything about the cross is about the potential to fill your purpose. It is very difficult to get to that place where your cross runs your life. I know. And when your cross takes over in your life, boy does it take over. It's almost as frightening as the idea of giving up the not-self because your purpose is something that does not honor your characteristics.
So, for example, let's say that you're an anti-social, nasty, savage little survivor like me. And you get on the wheel and the wheel turns you into some kind of social interactive good-for-everybody nice guy. But that's the cross. It doesn't matter once you’re into the movement of your purpose what your characteristics are. Characteristics only matter when you're stuck with your not-self and you’re unawake. This is the whole thing about my joke about not being furniture in a movie, the background. The background doesn't mean anything. But the moment you give background purpose, it jumps to the front of the lens and everybody can see it. It doesn't matter where you come from. The coward in the movie in the background that suddenly emerges as the hero and everybody is wondering where that come from.
Your characteristics don't matter when you're living out your purpose. They don't. If I was living out my not-self, my nature, my very characteristics would create problems for me in this life as they did before I knew all of this. They just would. And purpose would never allow me to transcend the problems of my characteristics, never. That's the magic of being yourself, because the moment you really are living out your nature, your cross will take over, your purpose will take over and out of that will come its archetypal demand and the opportunity to be fulfilled that way, whatever that way happens to be.