Playing a Character Role in Early Life

We have a fairly large number of acceptable character roles that people are allowed to play. You should watch these things very carefully because it's tremendously instructive to figure out what kind of roles your friends are playing. A child notices very early in life that he's a different person in different environments. He is one person in the company of his parents. Sometimes one person with his father and another with his mother. Another person with a nursemaid. And still quite another person alone with other children. The messages that we get from the social environment do not tell us very many things about ourselves. They don't tell us above all about the big secret. How we are connected with the cosmos. Because