“But changing yourself means giving up on yourself until now, denying yourself until now and never again showing the face of yourself until now, as if you were sending it to its grave, in effect. [...] That is why people do not try to change and why they want to feel okay with things as they are, no matter how tough life gets. And they end up living in search of 'okay as I am' ingredients in order to affirm their current situation.”
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