You must begin to trust yourself sometime. I suggest you do it now. If you do not then you will forever be looking to others to prove your own merit to you, and you will never be satisfied. You will always be asking others what to do, and at the same time, resenting those from whom you seek such aid.
Interpretation
Trusting yourself is crucial for personal fulfillment and independence.
This quote emphasizes the importance of self-trust as a foundation for personal satisfaction and empowerment. Jane Roberts suggests that if one continually seeks validation and direction from others, they may develop resentment and a lack of self-worth, thereby undermining their ability to make independent choices and find true contentment.
In practice
In a motivational speech encouraging audience members to embrace their individuality.
I will be unneeded, and gladly so, when you realize that the vitality and reinforcement and joy are your own, and rise from the fountain of your own beings; when you realize that you do not need me for protection, for there is nothing you need protect yourself against.
And, if you believe, in very simple terms, that people mean you well, and will treat you kindly, they will. And, if you believe that the world is against you, then so it will be in your experience. And, if you believe that you will begin to deteriorate at age 22, then so you shall.
One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.
The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.
Are you distracted by outward cares? Then allow yourself a space of quiet wherein you can add to your knowledge of the Good and learn to curb your restlessness. Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. Avail yourself often, then, of this retirement, and so continually renew yourself.
What I wanted to do was slap him down a bit with wit and words. Grammar and vocabulary as a weapon. But what kind of world would it be if we all took every opportunity presented to us to assault the weak?
All my hurts my garden spade can heal.
A good lawyer knows how to shut up when he's won his case.
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