The feeling that "I am enough" does not mean that I have nothing to learn, nothing further to achieve, and nowhere to grow to. It means that I accept myself, that I am not on trial in my own eyes, that I value and respect myself. This is not an act of indulgence but of courage.

Your choices have psychological consequences. The way you choose to deal with reality, truth, facts - your choice to honor or dishonor your own perceptions - registers in your mind, for good or for bad, and either confirms and strengthens your self-esteem or undermines and weakens it.

Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.

What is guilt? It is moral self-reproach-I did wrong when it was possible to have done otherwise.

Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself.

It is painful to face the self we know we have never had the integrity to honor and assert.

Suppose you feel you cannot accept some fact about yourself. Then own your refusal to accept. Own the block. Embrace it fully. And watch it begin to disappear. The principal is this: Begin where you are-accept that. Then change and growth become possible.