When it comes to cultivating slef-respect it is useful to see that respect is really so etching that comes from winning admiration.
Just as we come to respect someone because they really in some way have won our admiration we need to do the same for ourselves.
Wining our own admiration comes from, knowing ourselves.
Knowing our good points and knowing that in relation to our bad points - we have much potential to change and transform ourselves just as we have done many times before.
Searching thoroughly through our life we can find our good points.
Knowing what the essence is and what the consciousness is and knowing that we are that, wins a lot of respect. I would say most of our respect for oursleves is based on that single knowing.
Respect is also allowing for our particular nature to be as it is. Respecting its times, its rhythms and its strengths and nature in processing impressions, life, events, decisions etc.
The work on ourselves wins back our self-respect!
Action that enhances our itegrity wins back or strengthens our self-respect.
Noble action in times of strong or difficult adversity strengthens our self-respect.
Self-respect is to not allow oursleves to drop to levels lower than what we are at or what our inner valuies would allow.
To follow the principles of the work, the path and the Being only ever add to your self-respect. The abyss and its ways lowers our self-respect and brings those consequences that I mentioned in an earlier post.
End (4215).
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