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
“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
“It is impossible to get better and look good at the same time. Give yourself permission to be a beginner.” — Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way
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
‘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
Vex King • Healing Is the New High
Sometimes our deepest hate is for the things we find impossible to change about ourselves.
"What you deny subdues you. What you accept transforms you." — Carl Jung
Your entire life will change the moment you begin to accept the truth about yourself.
Then, and only then, can you start taking action to change it.
Your entire life will change the moment you begin to accept the truth about yourself.
Then, and only then, can you start taking action to change it.
The first step in healing anything is taking full accountability. It is no longer being in denial about the honest truth of your life and yourself. It does not matter what your life looks like on the outside; it is how you feel about it on the inside. It is not okay to be constantly stressed, panicked, and unhappy. Something is wrong, and the longe
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