The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.
Realizing that we've surrendered our self-esteem to others and choosing to be accountable for our own self-worth would mean absorbing the terrifying fact that we're always vulnerable to pain and loss.
As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.
Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.
The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in 'renouncing' one's own self, by which I mean making up one's mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being 'happy' or 'unhappy' in the usual meaning of the words.
The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.
It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.
Each of us must become impassioned, finding meaning and self-fulfillment in our own life's journey.
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
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