Today I accept myself as I am. When I live by a self-flattering set of images and deny my own negative qualities, I never truly know myself. Consequently I never truly know others. To only know what is flattering about myself keeps me forever on the surface of life and in bondage to my own unwillingness to see. Accepting what is the worst in me tends to
transform it in some way because I no longer feed it by keeping it in darkness. When I expose it to light, it changes. When I will only know a self-aggrandizing side of myself, that is all I can know in others. When I am able to live with all of it – to know myself fully – then I develop wisdom and acceptance and I can see who another person is.

I will live with all of me.

anyone lived in pretty how town (with up so floating many bells down) spring summer autumn winter he sang his didn’t he danced his did e. e. cummings