Tearing Down Walls: Ich Bin Ein Berliner

Like Berlin, we all have a wall, an inner wall, that needs to be torn down. It's a wall we built at a young age, when socialization began and we needed a barrier behind which we could hide that part of ourselves that was unacceptable to our mothers as well as important others. What we hide is the "shadow." To conceal it, we create a wall that we call the "persona. "
To be a Berliner, is about starting out as a unified whole, as we all started out as infants, as Berlin itself started out. It...