I am going to stop doing social media. I have an unhealthy relationship with it, as it has become the way I seek external validation and approval (a proxy for my parents’ love). I’ll check back in a decade or two to see what I missed.
Having just completed the Hoffman Process, I may finally have found self-love. I brought this photo from my childhood, as a memento of my inner child, my favorite part of me.
I’ll end with a couple of my favorite quotes from the student workbook:
“A human being is a part of the whole (called by us the “universe”), a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves — our thoughts and feelings — as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” — Albert Einstein
“We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.” — John Lennon
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