He says we believe "we will finally fall in love with ourselves only when we have become the totally efficient organism we have always wanted to be and left all our bumbling ineptness behind. Yet in exactly the way we come to find love and intimacy with others through vulnerability, we come to those same qualities in ourselves through living out the awkwardness of not knowing, of not being in charge.
We try to construct a life in which we will be perfect, in which we will eliminate awkwardness, pass by vulnerability, ignore ineptness, only to pass through the gate of our lives and find, strangely, that the gateway is vulnerability itself, the very place we are open to the world whether we like it or not."
Today, know that the way to loving yourself is not through perfecting yourself, but embracing yourself in all your awkward vulnerability, with the same tender acceptance with which you love those most dear to you.