Accepting yourself isn't about giving up or settling.
Throwing in the towel. No. Accepting yourself is about
having your own back and never abandoning yourself.
Accepting yourself isn't about amputating your ambition.
It's about owning your self-worth. Accepting yourself is
about respecting yourself. It's about honoring who you are
right now today in this moment. Not just who you could
become somewhere down the line when we create a mythical,
better investigation of ourselves. You see, we all want to
do better. We want to be better. We want to feel
better. And we can. But when we seek from a place of lack
or deficiency or feeling like, you know what? I'm just
not enough, we create more suffering in our lives. When we
seek from a place of wholeness, of knowing that I am
already a bad ass, already, I just want to create some more
bad ass-ery in my life, that's when we grow in a
sustainable way. You are not broken. Not one of you in
this room. You are not broken. I am not broken. We don't
need fixing. We need loving. (Applause.) Thank you.