Your job is not to lock the doors and chisel at yourself like a marble statue in the darkness until you feel quantifiably worthy of the world outside. Your job, really, is to find people who love you for reasons you hardly understand, and to love them back, and to try as hard as you can to make it all easier for each other.
when we stop rejecting who we are, there is freedom from the known. This freedom cultivates a space for a the meeting of who we truly are. The mind has to fall apart, for the heart to fall into place.