Carl Jung once said: “The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.”

Not to improve. Not to transcend.

To accept.

The moment you stop negotiating your worth,

you become the one thing no amount of healing can manufacture: real.

Not the performed version. Not the optimized version.

Just the raw, unresolved, beautifully unfinished truth of who you actually are.

And that, perhaps, is what the soul was searching for all along.

Not a destination called “healed.” But a homecoming called presence.

~t.s,m.

in the core of being, vastness remains…

inquiry for today~ what is your aspiration?

can you be at peace?

Let someone love you the way you are – as flawed as you might be, as unattractive as you sometimes feel, and as unaccomplished as you think you are. To believe that you must hide all the parts of you that are broken, out of fear that someone else is incapable of loving what is less than perfect, is to believe that sunlight is incapable of entering a broken window and illuminating a dark room.

~Mark Hack