Oh goodness! What a nostalgia! You remind me of one of my very first pieces on Medium and of my writing career overall! It was an example trying to explain the difference between the original center (the universal principles) and any other distorted one (one of the outcomes of our conditioning):

Let’s suppose I have a kid who accidentally killed somebody when driving drunk.

Because my children are my Center, I would do all that it takes to protect my child. I would bribe a killer to take responsibility for the incident.

If my Center was the Principles, then I would have been the one to accompany my child to the police station.

"Your center is the basis for your love manifestation. If your center is your children, the love that manifests from that will mostly benefit your children. If your center is the ‘Universal Principles’, the manifestation of your love will benefit the universe."