Reading a book by Don Miguel Ruiz that hit home again today (I traded an "est Werner Erhard tape for it.)

"In your whole life no one has ever abused you more than you have abused yourself. And the limit of your self-abuse is exactly the limit that you will tolerate from someone else."
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"The more self love we have, the less we will experience
self-abuse. Self-abuse comes from self-rejection and self rejection comes from having an image about what it means to be perfect and never measuring up to that ideal."
Our image of perfection is the reason we reject ourselves; it is why we don't accept ourselves the way we are. And why we don't accept others the way they are."
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