one of the first lessons that all of us should learn, the pnnciple of self-acceptance This accounts for one of the big problems in modem life So many people have been plunged across the abyss of emohonal fatalism because they did not learn this sim- ple lesson, the lesson of self-acceptance So many of us hide this tragc gap between ourdesired self and ouractual self We find ourselves liwng life trymg to be what we are not and what we can’t be So genuine religon says to us in no uncertain terms, “Accept yourself ”You cannot be anybody else You can’t be me and I can’t be you And your great prayer in life should be, “Lord help me to accept my tools However dull they are, help me to accept them And then Lord, after I have accepted my tools, then help me to set out and do what I can do wth my tools ” Forthere is a bit of latent creahwty wthin all of us, seelung to break forth, and that creahwty is often blocked because we are trymg to be somebody else, tryng to be what we aren’t There is nothing more tragc than to see an indimdualwhose ambihons outdistance his capacity That’s a tragc sight. So that we have in life this responsibility to be sure that we are wlling to face our capacihes as they are and d o the best we can w t h them, and that’s all God requires That’sall that stands before you is to do it well. - Martin Luther King Jr. (1952 sermon transcript )
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