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Seedthoughts
Self: What is my relationship to myself?

1. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
   --Eleanor Roosevelt
2. In real life it only takes one to make a quarrel. --Ogden Nash
3. All the truly important battles are waged within the self. --Sheldon Kopp
4. Take care of this. It's all there is. You'll never get another one.
   --Kenneth Rexroth
5. Give to you. Support your local self. --Harry Browne
6. The essential core of healing is how we can be with ourselves rather than anything we can do to change or improve ourselves. --John Welwood
7. Why must I suffer for not being perfect when I can be good enough.
   --Sheldon Kopp
8. Learn to forgive yourself, again and again and again and again . . .
   --Sheldon Kopp
9. If a person is able to love productively, he loves himself too; if can love only others, he cannot love at all. --Erich Fromm
10. When I face the Holy One, he will not ask me why were you not like Moses? He will ask me why were you not like Zussye? It is for this question that I tremble. --Rav Zussye of Tarnifal, on his death bed
11. I'd like to be myself if I thought I could get away with it.
    --adolescent's response when his psychiatrist asked him what he wanted to be
12. People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something that one finds. It is something that one creates. --Thomas Szasz
13. I exist as I am--that is enough;
    If no other in the world be aware, I sit content;
    If each and all be aware, I sit content. --Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself"

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