05-07-2015, 04:53 PM
I dedicate myself to self-honesty and self-discovery, so that in better knowing myself I may continually refine the gifts I offer to humanity.
When I started on this path, I was too deep in self-hatred to know what I wanted or what I was capable of. I relied on others to validate my worth, and spent most of my time trying to help people who neither wanted nor needed my assistance in an attempt to produce tangible evidence that I was "a positive person". I desperately craved attention and wound up dragging others down with my antics.
Eventually I realized these qualities within myself, along with the misery they brought me, and I pledged to better understand myself so that I would no longer need the crutch of other people's approval. To serve others in a pure fashion is to serve regardless of whether one is noticed, thanked or approved of. It is to act without the expectation of any reward, and to accept the possibility of suffering for one's actions. It comes from the genuine desire to do good unto others, and it is only through seeking my own nature that I have realized why I desire to do that good.
Therefore my motto or "goal statement" is Know Thy Self, for I see the willingness to seek that knowledge as the foundation of all further acts of service.
When I started on this path, I was too deep in self-hatred to know what I wanted or what I was capable of. I relied on others to validate my worth, and spent most of my time trying to help people who neither wanted nor needed my assistance in an attempt to produce tangible evidence that I was "a positive person". I desperately craved attention and wound up dragging others down with my antics.
Eventually I realized these qualities within myself, along with the misery they brought me, and I pledged to better understand myself so that I would no longer need the crutch of other people's approval. To serve others in a pure fashion is to serve regardless of whether one is noticed, thanked or approved of. It is to act without the expectation of any reward, and to accept the possibility of suffering for one's actions. It comes from the genuine desire to do good unto others, and it is only through seeking my own nature that I have realized why I desire to do that good.
Therefore my motto or "goal statement" is Know Thy Self, for I see the willingness to seek that knowledge as the foundation of all further acts of service.
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