01. a quote on self-criticism
"Clarissa Pinkola Estés has remarked that in old stories, those who are gentle with what is undesirable are many times blessed, while those who scorn and reject [what is not perfect] are either barred from their desires, or punished, often cruelly. This lesson can be applied to how we to respond to things about ourselves we don’t like ... when we’re cold and rejecting toward the things in ourselves that we find grotesque and undesirable,…