PART 6: Our solution: acquire happiness by rearranging our external world. * Our conscious self-image is “the face of innocence,” that of a good self trying to make its way through an unjust world. * We respond to the world’s attacks by defending ourselves. * We attempt to fill our needs with external things, situations, and events, based on the belief that we are inherently lacking. * A major need we seek to satisfy is the need to feel innocent. * Another major need is the need to feel special. * In our search for happiness, the body is both a means and an end. * The crowning gift we seek, which incorporates all of the other gifts, is special love. * All of our seeking attempts to get something from the world, for which we generally must pay something back.