- 1. Search and find your positive qualities
- 2. Learn tolerance of yourself and thereby find acceptance.
- 3. Appreciate your limitations. Nobody is perfect, except the Great Mind.
- 4. Understand which flaws and negative qualities you have, and which ones you are expected to overcome in this life.
- 5. Some others may like you. What qualities do they see in you? This might give you a clue to understanding yourself better.
- 6. Focus on other people. Spend less time thinking about yourself.
- 7. Take time.
- 8. If the Great Mind made you, cares for you and gives you value, then that should be enough.
- 9. Have no fear of rejection from others or standing alone.
- 10. I should not regret anything in the past if I learn by the mistakes made.
- 11. The spiritual part of oneself needs the physical garment and needs to learn to coexist happily with it.
Paddina Cole (1915-2003)
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