Oath, Defended

I am I is the essence of self-acceptance. But it is not passive or selective self-acceptance. It is active, loud, strong, and, if necessary, heroically aggressive. It applies to all aspects of self …

Judgment value, moral equivocation, cultural and conventional values, the ideas of others do not cause me to deaden, repress or attempt to cut off parts of myself. I includes all that the culture may see as assets, liabilities, limitations, resources, insensitivities, cruelties, neurotic, good, bad, sensitive, wise or stupid in me.

— Compassion and Self Hate, Theodore Isaac Rubin

Artwork:
Kahlo, F. (1940).  Self-portrait with monkey. [Oil on masonite].  Retrieved from Wikiart.

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