P.D Ouspensky - Healthy(essence) VS Unhealthy(personality)

Personality is all that is learned in one or another way, In ordinary language, "consciously" or "unconsciously." In most cases "unconsciously" means by imitation, which plays an important part in the building of personality.

Artificial likes and dislikes can be acquired by imitation and imagination. These artificial likes and dislikes play a very important and very disastrous part in man's life.

By nature, man should like what is good for him and dislike what is bad for him. But this is so, only as long as essence(vs personality) dominates personality,.

Personality begins to dominate essence when man becomes less healthy, he begins to like what is bad for him and to dislike what is good for him.