In this entry of The Diary of Anais Nin, Volume One, Anais records a note to Dr. Rene Allendy that says, "this liberation from the ego is what seems to me your most precious gift to me. And it is only then one begins to love..."
Anais has become aware of her ego, which includes her thoughts, opinions, judgments, memories, resentments, reactions, emotions. The ego seems to always be "on," in an automatic, habitual, unconscious state. Awareness of what's going on inside her head is the first step to Anais' freedom, and only when she frees herself can she truly love.
Anais also speaks of feeling loved when she is known and understood and how her fear and lack of confidence and courage have narrowed her world and limited the people she has known and thus, people who have known and understood and loved her. Love can come full circle if one reaches out to others first.
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