
“I am Me. In all the world,
there is no one else exactly
like me. Everything that comes
out of me is authentically mine,
because I alone chose it -- I
own everything about me: my
body, my feelings, my mouth,
my voice, all my actions,
whether they be to others or
myself. I own my fantasies,
my dreams, my hopes, my
fears. I own my triumphs and
successes, all my failures and
mistakes. Because I own all of
me, I can become intimately
acquainted with me. By so
doing, I can love me and be
friendly with all my parts. I
know there are aspects about
myself that puzzle me, and
other aspects that I do not
know -- but as long as I am
friendly and loving to myself, I
can courageously and
hopefully look for solutions to
the puzzles and ways to find
out more about me. However I
look and sound, whatever I
say and do, and whatever I
think and feel at a given
moment in time is
authentically me. If later some
parts of how I looked, sounded,
thought, and felt turn out to be
unfitting, I can discard that
which is unfitting, keep the rest,
and invent something new for
that which I discarded. I can
see, hear, feel, think, say, and
do. I have the tools to survive,
to be close to others, to be
productive, and to make sense
and order out of the world of
people and things outside of
me. I own me, and therefore, I
can engineer me. I am me, and
I am Okay.