Wendy K. Laidlaw

Everything that I knew about me that I thought I was, you know, the smart little, tough little kid, get out of here.

This is going to be deadly.

And then what's left actually knows more about ourselves than we do.

And our ego has to die for us to get out of the fishbowl.

Ego has to die again for us to let go of the idea that we're so great.

It has to die again to let go of the idea that we're not worth anything.

It has to die these various deaths so that we're left with some kind of a more genuine version of ourself, which is who and what we were intended to be all along.

I mean, I don't know.

It seems to me that there's two versions of the ego that are problematic.

One is a pretentious part of myself, because the ego forms very early.

It forms apparently, at least I turn everything into a story.

So when I study psychology, it becomes stories.

And the story that I figured out is that the...

The core relationship, the original relationship is mother to child.

I mean, it's the most intimate relationship we ever have.

We're inside her body.

We're inside her dreams.

It's as intimate as you can get.

And then we come from there outside and we're clinging to that mother because to us, she's not a woman.

She's a goddess.