The one Presence chooses - why, we do not know - to express in particularity. Spirit shows up dressed in a tapestry of diversity that itself is composed of a potentially infinite design of unique manifestations of a single Beingness. The religions that present Beingness as being three - that is, Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism - are intimating an intuition that somehow Grace particularizes. 'God' creates from 'God' a community, a communion. My thought is part of this is 'God' wants to know and experience 'God' as other, as object, 'God' with 'God,' through this diversity, or, we could say, One with two and with three and with four - again, potentially, infinitely. Possibly, we are each a means of 'God' enjoying 'God'; therefore, for you to be authentic, real, and true to yourself is a means of being true to the Beingness giving you being. You have no need to be selfish or unselfish, in this sense, but simply to let become moment-by-moment that you are in 'God,' for who you are truly is and in 'God' has always been. I think many of us come to know the beauty of who we are through the love others give us. They remind us we, too, are a Temple walking around on this Earth. We need to be loved, to call us back Home.