We can say that everything is fine, while feeling a refusal, fear or exhaustion. The book often returns to this distance between our discourse and our experience. The inner honesty begins when we agree to see this gap.

This honesty is not a condemnation. To say "I am still void" adds a judgment to what we are trying to understand. A simpler observation would be: "I said yes while I felt no." From this finding, another choice becomes possible.