truth

People who trust themselves trust themselves because they’re honest with themselves. More specifically, they’re honest about what they need to restrict themselves from or altogether avoid. We think that the more we trust ourselves, the fewer boundaries we’ll need; the opposite is true. The people who trust themselves the most are the ones who honor

“Great things can only be understood gradually. You don’t get anything great all at once.”

— Richard Rohr

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. -Frederick Douglass

Don’t forget this: Nothing is truly ever ordinary. I’m telling you, Protect the truest things about you and it will become easier to hear the truth everyplace else.

insight from Gurwinder Bhogal:

People want to belong to a tribe, and one way that people belong to a tribe is by having the same beliefs as the members of that tribe Our minds are configured not to argue for what is true, but for what we want to believe and what we need to believe in order to be part of the tribe