From the book by Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements:
“We need to be accepted and loved by others, but we cannot accept and love ourselves.
The greater our love for ourselves, the less we will self-torture. Self-torture comes from self-rejection, and self-rejection comes from our idea of perfection and the unattainability of this ideal. Our idea of perfection is the reason both for rejecting ourselves and for not accepting ourselves and others as they are.”**
Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements
Note: The quoted passages are translated from Bulgarian.
