Given the same set of circumstances, we can do anything anyone else can do: steal, kill, write bad checks, or commit adultery. If we think we are above such behavior, we are naive. How readily can we accept that we are as capable of doing anything anyone else could do? For those of us who have been sheltered, it may take a bit longer to discover just how close we can come to any of these behaviors. We are fortunate, indeed, if we come to a point where we are forced to at least face one of these aspects of our personality. Once we see how capable we are of doing a particular thing we may not have believed possible, we gain a deeper acceptance of our own humanity. Our freedom increases. In turn, we accept others more easily.
May I be open to the reality of my own humanness.
Accepting ourselves helps us accept others, too.
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