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• "Ultimately, self-acceptance relates to the opening of the heart. It has to do with the long, hard journey of loving ourselves."

  — Mark Nepo

  The Self-Acceptance Project

• "The person to whom we have the highest moral obligation is the one over whom we have the highest influence, and that is our future self. So, if you want to give yourself a gift tomorrow or next year, or perhaps in the next lifetime, treat yourself well."

  — Rick Hanson

  The Self-Acceptance Project

• "When we are self-critical or experiencing shame, our sense of self becomes completely constricted around the part of us we feel has done wrong or is not enough."

  — Kelly McGonigal

  The Self-Acceptance Project

• "That is really what radical forgiveness is all about — that people can feel better about themselves, accept themselves, love themselves more, and know that they are perfect just the way they are."

  — Colin Tipping

  The Self-Acceptance Project

• "Healthy shame triggers and is triggered by our conscience, but unhealthy shame — toxic shame — triggers and is triggered by our inner critic."

  — Robert Augustus Masters

  The Self-Acceptance Project

• "Self-acceptance is a great matter, asking much of us, and giving back even more. Exploring and cultivating intimacy with what’s in the way of self-acceptance is an essential journey for us, if we are to truly come alive."

  — Robert Augustus Masters

  The Self-Acceptance Project

• "Transformation is a study of the evolution of consciousness through its three main levels of development… Tradition indicates that three levels of consciousness are available to us: simple consciousness, not often seen in our modern technological world; complex consciousness, the usual state of educated Western man; and an enlightened state of consciousness, known only to a very few individuals, which is the culmination of human evolution and can be attained only by highly motivated people after much work and training."

  — Robert A. Johnson

  Transformation

• "An emotion is your brain’s creation of what your bodily sensations mean, in relation to what is going on around you in the world."

  — Lisa Feldman Barrett

  How Emotions Are Made

• "Psychological and spiritual adulthood does not come automatically with age. It requires ongoing and ardent work on ourselves. It involves articulating our own truth and acting in accord with its challenges."

  — David Richo

  How to Be an Adult

• "Our most habitual and compelling feelings and thoughts define the core of who we think we are."

  — Tara Brach

  Radical Acceptance

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