7/ Another solution, popular in the self-improvement world, is to make the choices and act in the manner that *earns* you your self-respect.
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18/ When we do not pay attention to what occurs in our own being, we disrespect it. We are, in effect, against it—how can we respect it?
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19/ Unaware and ignorant of what our minds and bodies tell us, we get in trouble. Physical and mental illness is an indication in many cases
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20/ We do so particularly when we force things upon ourselves with our thinking minds. When the ego gets a free pass & thinks it knows best
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21/ We are wired a certain way, our bodies and minds have a genetic makeup. Our awareness is free, but not free to fully change our being.
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22/ We are free to Trust and Follow our Being however. To develop through it and by it, to its own particular infinite potential.
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23/ As there is a Thinking mind there is an Intuitive mind. If we are to respect ourselves we must also pay attention to our Intuitive mind.
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24/ Fundamentally, self-respect is getting on with your entire being. This is a practice that one cultivates each moment, throughout life.
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25/ The process entails that we look back, we listen to and trust our whole being—not just our thinking mind—as we live life & make choices.
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26/ The more we are in accord with our own being as it develops and changes, the more we create the opportunity to grow into its potential.
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27/ Through that process self-respect as esteem arises naturally, as we do not seek to define ourselves by it but instead are defined by it.
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