What is the seal of liberation? No longer being ashamed in front of oneself.
You must learn to love yourself with a healthy, wholehearted love, so that you can bear being with yourself and not need to roam.
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook on life.
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.
Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, your education, your culture.
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