The problem is that we cannot really be completed from without. What we feel is ‘added’ to us, or our lives, isn’t. It is, in an important sense, already within us, and our relational activity awakens our awareness of it. Our minds and habits may then link these feelings to the external catalysts, and thus we confuse the presence and activity of the relational triggers for the feelings of inner completeness or poverty they may elicit.

We are evolutionarily predisposed toward intimate social relation, and our inward world changes constantly in heuristic response to our relational activity, yet our completeness is inherent; it is essentially absolute and inviolable.

This is why we cannot be completed from without, and our attempts at this form of completion are bound for failure. The more we sustain and pursue the illusions that sustain themselves on our desire and concern, the more bound in them we become.

Nothing can be added to your fundamental completeness except one thing: the illusion of poverty.