Sovereignty
Until you can accept who you are and value yourself deeply enough to bring your true, authentic self to others, you will experience an incongruence between your values and your actions.
Claire Jack • Women with Autism: Accepting and Embracing Autism Spectrum Disorder as You Move Towards an Authentic Life
This reframes authenticity from moral imperative to biological necessity. When you stop auditioning for belonging, you realize something profound: you already belonged to yourself. Self-belonging is unconditional—not something you earn through performance, but something you recognize through presence.
stepfanie tyler • The Quiet Thrill of Not Being for Everyone
Charles Taylor, a Canadian philosopher, discusses authenticity as a modern moral ideal in his work, particularly in "The Ethics of Authenticity". For Taylor, authenticity isn't simply about being true to oneself in a superficial sense. Instead, he sees it as a complex concept deeply intertwined with:
1. **Self-discovery and Originality:**... See more
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“This life is mine alone. So I have stopped asking people for directions to places they’ve never been.”
―Glennon Doyle,Untamed
The paradox seems to be, as Socrates demonstrated long ago, that the truly free individual is free only to the extent of his own self-mastery. While those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.
Steven Pressfield • The War of Art
You are not here to be palatable.
You are here to be sovereign.
Let your power move through your body, not around it.
You are here to be sovereign.
Let your power move through your body, not around it.
A Beltane Ritual for You
The first stage of sovereignty is dealing with our own self-deception and neurosis. Sovereignty means we have to ‘become responsibility for our own shit’ and become ‘a light unto ourselves’. This will then help us develop intelligent relationships and communities.
Rebel Wisdom • The War on Sensemaking
But whether or not you accept it, you are sovereign. You rule one life — and you rule it totally. You decide which information you will accept or reject. You decide what your next action will be. You decide what moral code you’ll live by.