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Re: Do you accept yourself. [Re: Icelander]
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Exactly the way you are?


not always.


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Re: Do you accept yourself. [Re: AlteredAgain]
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AlteredAgain said:
psilocyberin said:
I dont think anyone seeking body modifications such as tattoo's, piercings etc.... really accept themselves for who they are.


hm, go get one and find out for sure. :grin:

SilverSoul :thumbup:


because Im not cool enough. apparently. I dont feel the need to advertise how cool or uncool I am, and my social skills are strong enough to not need a visible permanent marking to start conversations.

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Re: Do you accept yourself. [Re: SneezingPenis]
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i hear you, personally i thought once of getting a specific tattoo, not to be cool or anything like that, but because what i had in mind at that time actually had sentimental value to me.

however i later realized that its value will always remain in my mind and thus there was no dire need to exteriorize it onto my skin. end of story. :smirk:


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Re: Do you accept yourself. [Re: Icelander]
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Nope. I cut everyone else much more slack than I do myself. I hold myself to high standards, and often berate myself for minor infractions.

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Re: Do you accept yourself. [Re: Veritas]
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You sure cut me plenty. :heart:


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"Don't believe everything you think". -Anom.

" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC

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Re: Do you accept yourself. [Re: Icelander]
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It is so much easier to see the struggles that others are involved in, and realize that they are doing their best, than it is to recognize the same in myself.

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Re: Do you accept yourself. [Re: Veritas]
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I've fucked up so many opportunites and done so many stupid things. My body is weak and obese, my mind holds nothing of value, and I am not always coherent in speech.

Theres a lot not to like about me.


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The Mad Shroomer said:
People are always promising the apocalypse. They never deliver. :frown:

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Re: Do you accept yourself. [Re: Wasteland]
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Wasteland said:
I've fucked up so many opportunites and done so many stupid things. My body is weak and obese, my mind holds nothing of value, and I am not always coherent in speech.

Theres a lot not to like about me.


What a grand opportunity to accept yourself unconditionally. You have everything you need for starting on the warriors path. :thumbup: :mushroom2:


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"Don't believe everything you think". -Anom.

" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC

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Re: Do you accept yourself. [Re: Icelander]
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I'm a big fan of kaizen: "continuous improvement." There is always potential waiting to come into being.

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Re: Do you accept yourself. [Re: Icelander]
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I accept myself like a paranoid schizophrenic accepts his own delusions.

I'm just one delusion in the greater mind, one voice among many other screaming ones.


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So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another.

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Re: Do you accept yourself. [Re: MushmanTheManic]
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MushmanTheManic said:
I'm a big fan of kaizen: "continuous improvement." There is always potential waiting to come into being.


That's not the question. :wink:


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"Don't believe everything you think". -Anom.

" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC

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Re: Do you accept yourself. [Re: Ravus]
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That's the answer I'm looking for. Unconditional self acceptance. :grin:

It really is all we have going for us. Why not accept things the way they are and make the best of it. It's lots easier once you get the hang of it. But it does take practice like any skill.


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"Don't believe everything you think". -Anom.

" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC

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Re: Do you accept yourself. [Re: Icelander]
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There is always room for change :wink:
But I appreciate the acceptance of oneself, even if it is not the highest standard :heart:
One said, one can only really accept what one knows. So I can accept that I don't know what to accept of me :smile: I accept my imperfectness, my values and my openness for the different.
I don't have any real concept of myself as I appreciate the moment too much to be lost in too many concepts, especially about myself.
I accept that I am good enough for me.
Sorry, if I walked away from the expectations of your question. Perhaps I am just ranting.


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Though lovers be lost love shall not  And death shall have no dominion
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"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."Martin Luther King, Jr.
'Acceptance is the absolute key - at that moment you gain freedom and you gain power and you gain courage'

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Re: Do you accept yourself. [Re: BlueCoyote]
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I accept my imperfectness,


I have found that this is the first step to any kind of emotional health. To the extent that one can accept themselves in all their imperfections and messiness, that is the extent to which we can move forward on our spiritual quest. I would add that this is not as easy as it seems, when much of our programming is unconscious at times. I may say I love myself unconditionally but the test is do I act it and speak it.


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"Don't believe everything you think". -Anom.

" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC

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Re: Do you accept yourself. [Re: Icelander]
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No, not really. I wish I would though. I truly do. But it’s simpler to compensate with personal delusions of grandeur.


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"Who are you who live in all these many forms? You're death that captures all. You too are the source of all that's gonna be born. You're glory, mercy, peace, truth. You give calm a spirit, understanding, courage, the contented heart."

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Re: Do you accept yourself. [Re: redtailedhawk]
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I definatly do not act and speak it, however I say that I do. I guess its almost like sometimes I don't even know what acting and speaking it is. My beliefs must not be solid enough yet to truly know that I have a concrete center to always project. It's just that I change my mind so much, at one moment I am accepting, but two days later, I have changed.

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Re: Do you accept yourself. [Re: Icelander]
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"I have found that this is the first step to any kind of emotional health."

What has convinced you that a state of imperfection exists. We are all perfect just as we are.


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"A warrior is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's control. Once his calculations are over, he acts. He lets go. That's abandon. A warrior is not a leaf at the mercy of the wind. No one can push him; no one can make him do things against himself or against his better judgment. A warrior is tuned to survive, and he survives in the best of all possible fashions." ― Carlos Castaneda

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Re: Do you accept yourself. [Re: Huehuecoyotl]
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No, currently I hate myself and surroundings.

I need to break out of these chains of comfort without emotionally hurting anyone else (mainly, my broke-ass, in-debt, cant-afford-shit, leaching mom [yet, I still love her too much :frown:]). And that cant be done. I feel trapped because my earnings go to others and I feel unappreciated. It hurts to live with people who are oblivious to any sort of inner truth or inner strength. I feel engulfed in in a water of weakness. And what is worse? My job consumes my time, but I need the money and job benefits.

I want to cry, and then I want to fly before I die. Instead I wait for nothing. I am placing myself in the infinite loop of death, with full awareness of what I am doing.

What the hell should I do?

Does acceptance require you to like it? If not, how can one NOT accept oneself?


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As the life of a candle,
my wick will burn out.
But, the fire of my mind
shall beam into infinite.

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Re: Do you accept yourself. [Re: Icelander]
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I've accepted myself as a person among many who is undergoing the temporary experience of being peculiarly incapable of self-acceptance.


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Re: Do you accept yourself. [Re: Huehuecoyotl]
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Huehuecoyotl said:
"I have found that this is the first step to any kind of emotional health."

What has convinced you that a state of imperfection exists. We are all perfect just as we are.


It's not a matter of inperfection, it is one of happiness and freeing oneself from ones programming.


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"Don't believe everything you think". -Anom.

" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC

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