No person is an island. Fritz Perls taught that we are self reliant, not self sufficient. That means I can rely on myself to attain what I need that I do not contain within myself. Needy and incomplete are what I am, and self-love means loving all of me including my needy and incomplete. My understanding is that a self love that includes self acceptance and self confidence allows for self reliance, so I can rely on myself to reach out, say what I need and want, say what I don't want, say what I will do and won't do. I discovered a newly rich life with myself when I turned on to having an inner life and began to value and pay attention to it. What works for me is to be still, shut out the outer noise, and listen to my inner experience, that is, my feelings, my intuition, my inner voice and inner nudging. The author says to not despise your inner world. Indeed, what works for me is to revere my inner world and use it to express and go after what is good for me and decline on what isn't. It is my compass and more. The foolish thing is that I don't consult it and trust it more often.
On Sep 9, 2014 david doane wrote :
No person is an island. Fritz Perls taught that we are self reliant, not self sufficient. That means I can rely on myself to attain what I need that I do not contain within myself. Needy and incomplete are what I am, and self-love means loving all of me including my needy and incomplete. My understanding is that a self love that includes self acceptance and self confidence allows for self reliance, so I can rely on myself to reach out, say what I need and want, say what I don't want, say what I will do and won't do. I discovered a newly rich life with myself when I turned on to having an inner life and began to value and pay attention to it. What works for me is to be still, shut out the outer noise, and listen to my inner experience, that is, my feelings, my intuition, my inner voice and inner nudging. The author says to not despise your inner world. Indeed, what works for me is to revere my inner world and use it to express and go after what is good for me and decline on what isn't. It is my compass and more. The foolish thing is that I don't consult it and trust it more often.