Living With The Self
We have a self. We not only have feelings and thoughts and impressions of others - also about ourselves. How do we live with ourselves? I found twelve ways. Most of them come in opposite flavors. And there may be more. Check with yourself. I am not sure if they should be considered in any particular order. Anyway, here they come. Personal growth and self-knowledge as essential components of Personal Mastery may well have insights in these candid ways - holistic self-improvement and spiritual development for a more fulfilling life is surely an outcome of a higher order of self-enquiry. Hans TenDam Feeding ourselves. This can be literal or metaphorical. During meetings, we may be on the lookout for appreciating glances or remarks. We may be hungry for compliments, at least for acknowledgment. The negative of this is starving ourselves. We do that when we feel that we don’t deserve positive feedback. Or when we feel it is safer to be unnoticed, invisible. Or we do that to discipli