Question every thought that causes suffering and test it against your own sense of truth.
Martha BeckYou get social pressure from your parents, who teach you to pay attention to certain things and not to others. You get it in school.
Martha BeckYou are lovable. Can you show me any baby in any nursery who isn't priceless? No. There's no such thing as a worthless newborn. And the essential value that was born into brand-new-baby you can never be extinguished. This means that even if you think you're being absolutely honest, believing yourself to be anything other than astonishing, incomparable, and infinitely precious makes you a habitual liar.
Martha Beck