"When are you going to stop taking your cues from others about what you should be and do in life? When are you going to stop denying your authentic self to satisfy the expectations and scripts others have put on you? When are you going to start listening to that voice inside you? When are you going to start trusting your own internal guidance system? When is the violation of your true self going to be a bigger violation than displeasing others? When are you going to stop playing the futile game of measuring up? When are you going to accept that simply being you is enough? When are you going to see that your worth and value is an intrinsic, unchanging and irrefutable fact, and not a tenuous and questionable proposition that you have to fight for every day?
Aren't you tired yet?"
- Jim Palmer, Notes from (Over) the Edge
Read this passage again, and see which sentences stir something in your gut. This one did it for me:
"When is the violation of your true self going to be a bigger violation than displeasing others?"
What a great quote. Lots of good stuff in that one. Sending revitalizing energy your way.
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