Assagioli talked of psychosynthesis as essentially an attitude, an inclusive approach to the psyche which began from the premise that whole is. We do not make ourselves whole, in potential we are already whole and this unbroken wholeness within each of us can be recognised. Rather than trying to untie the knots of our alienation, we could create a new perspective for our identity by shifting our attention away from the habitual patterns of conditioning to the underlying wholeness of who we essentially are. In many ways he was reiterating what spiritual teachers have said over centuries, namely that we are asleep to our true nature and we need to 'WAKE UP!'