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%BEING MISTAKE IDENTITY ESTEEM CONFUSION ADDICT GOD 900402

     It  is  one thing to recognize your self  has  having
made a mistake, and in that recognition learning from  the
mistake so as to be better able to cope.

     It is an entirely different thing to regard your self
as  being  a mistake, and being incapable of learning from
any  mistakes made.   To regard your self as essentially a
mistake puts you in your own prison, and leads you to  own
that prison, and to regard it as your home.

     Only  God  can rescue you from your own prison,   and
then only if you give God the key to let you out.  The key
to getting out of your own prison is to let God or one  of
God's  servants  use your key to let you out.    You  must
trust  another to use your key to let you  out.    Without
trust and risk there is no release.

     The key which will let you out of your prison is your
acknowledgement that  you cannot do it yourself,  and that
you are  willing to accept your  being  accepted while you
are   still in prison,   needing outside help to help  you
get out of your prison.   So  long as  you insist that you
will  get  yourself  out  of  your  prison  on   your  own
without  outside help,  before you will let anyone  accept
you  as you are,   so  long  you are locked in your prison
with the key in your hand,   and with  the  lock reachable
only from the outside.

     Insisting on letting yourself out of your own  prison
is a tragic mistake,  but even that tragic mistake is  not
the same thing as being a mistake.   Until you learn  that
you cannot let yourself out of your own prison,  and learn
to  let somebody else release you from  your own prison by
accepting  you  as you are---you will remain in  your  own
prison  unable to learn from your BIG MISTAKE, or from the
many little mistakes to which it leads.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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