The renowned seventh-century Zen master Seng-tsan taught that true freedom is being "without anxiety about imperfection.

With the first out breath, you are releasing worries, plans, mental tensions. With the second out breath, you are releasing physical tightness and tension. With the third out breath, you are releasing difficult emotions.

Sometimes the easiest way to appreciate ourselves is by looking through the eyes of someone who loves us.

Imperfection is not our personal problem - it is a natural part of existing.

Even a few moments of offering lovingkindness can reconnect you with the purity of your loving heart.

Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.

I would say both Western psychology and Eastern paths would recognize that we get caught up in feeling like a separate self and an unworthy self.