Self Acceptance flows from Self-Compassion
To be emotionally healthy and lead a happy life, we need to look at our weaknesses and failures, get healed, forgive ourselves and get involved in helping others.
According to Carl Gustav Jung, the journey of life is a movement towards wholeness. We can never be whole, unless we integrate the shadow side of ourselves with the positive traits we have. Self-acceptance means that we are comfortable with ourselves and embrace ourselves and our stories with all our imperfections.
Mark Twain was to say that the worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with ourselves. We are all fatally flawed. But, if we believe in ourselves, are content with what we have and are and accept ourselves, the more will the world accept us.
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Janina Gomes
