relationship with self

What makes your mind stronger, and more able to control your emotions, is internal discipline and toughness. No one can teach you this skill; you cannot learn it by reading about it. Like any discipline, it can come only through practice, experience, even a little suffering.

There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.

-H Thurman

high self awareness is a burden when you’re using it to find things in yourself to criticize & repress

high self awareness is a gift when you’re using to find things in yourself to love & amplify

you don’t build self trust by monitoring yourself constantly to see if you’re trustworthy