Saturday, December 14, 2019

On self worth


Accept that you are a person with desires and emotions like everyone else.

You may not be like everyone else, but that doesn't mean you are more or less special,  superior or inferior.

Let go of an idea that no one understands you. You can be understood and you can evidence it by understanding others.

When you relate to other people and empathize, you become aware you are not isolated and alienated. You put yourself in solitude when you devalue other people and their feelings.

Do not feed on other people's positive esteem of you. Do not be ashamed by overt or implied criticism. Have your own valuations and trust your own judgement.

You have capabilities and deficiencies as anyone else. Neither the extent of these abilities nor external outcomes like victories or defeats detract from or augment your inherent worth.

(The succeeding description of manner, goals, and actions must not be contingent on harming the people, cruelty to animals, or destruction of natural environment you inhabit.)

You have inherent worth to live life, in a manner that suits you. You have a right to pursue what matters to you. You have a right to choose actions that make you proud and lead to happiness. Nothing and no one has moral justification to take these away.

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