Transform_Jun 25
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
- Thomas a Kempis
My mother had this quote taped to the inside of a kitchen cabinet door, and I grew up reading it every time I reached for a clean glass. It has deeply informed my life.
Assignment: Today, practice accepting yourself exactly as you are.
Thomas à Kempis (Thomas van Kempen or Thomas Hemerken or Haemerken, litt. "small hammer"); (c. 1380 – 25 July 1471) was a late Medieval Catholic monk and the probable author of The Imitation of Christ, which is one of the best known Christian books on devotion. His name means, "Thomas of Kempen", his home town and in German he is known as Thomas von Kempen...
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