“Rigidity of the ego-shell is one of the malformations of the afflicted I; the opposite one is that often with no protective shell whatever. If in the former case the “vessel of life” is too tight, in the latter no proper vessel has ever been formed. Such as it is, it leaks everywhere. Its contours are indefinable and everything stands open. In this case tjhe man lacks what is necessary not only for holding his own inthe world, but also for perceiving and realizing his own deeper nature- his being.”
From Hara The Vital Center of Man
by Karlfried Graf Durckheim