The truth is that one day you hate yourself, and the next day you can’t wait to use your gifts
-Adam Jk
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The truth is that one day you hate yourself, and the next day you can’t wait to use your gifts -Adam Jk
Healing is not about eradicating the parts of ourselves we most loathe, nor is healing won through achievement sprees. Healing is realizing that you are already whole (perfect) right now, as you are. In this moment, you are worthy of as much love, joy, freedom, dignity, and connection as any human being could ever deserve. If you could fully accept
... See moreKatherine Morgan Schafler • The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control
“Not many people can confront the truth about themselves. If they did they’d run a mile, would take an immediate and profound dislike to the person in whose skin they’d learned to sit quite tolerably all these years.”
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
That image of perfection tells us how we should be in order to acknowledge that we are good, in order to accept ourselves. But guess what? This is the biggest lie we believe about ourselves, because we are never going to be perfect. And there is no way that we can forgive ourselves for not being perfect.
Janet Mills • The Mastery of Love: A Practical Guide to the Art of Relationship (A Toltec Wisdom Book)
I am convinced that some people are driven to addictions to quiet their constant inner critic, but it only gives them another thing to hate about themselves. What a vicious cycle! Moral scrutiny is not to discover how good or bad we are and regain some moral high ground, but to begin some honest “shadowboxing” which is at the heart of all spiritual... See more
a lot of people, I feel like in their need to “find themselves” and discover their authentic self really is just finding the shit that you like and just going with it.
Ben Settle • BizWorld: How to Create an Irresistible Business Universe Your Customers Love to Buy from and Hate to Leave
‘I’ve always been hated.’ There. That was it. She’d said out loud the thing she’d been most ashamed of for years; the thing that she’d been carrying with her, secretly, hoping no one else would notice. I knew this was a pivotal moment in her journey