Sense of Self

Your sense of self is who you are when you’re naked. When your spouse dies, your family disowns you, your faith disappoints you, and your friends abandon you.

Your sense of self is who you are when no one is bolstering your ego or whispering flattery or patting you on the back or encouraging your progress or celebrating your achievements.

Your sense of self is who you are apart from--or without--money, a job, children, a house or a partner.

Your sense of self is who you are without crutches, embraces or applause.

It is you, alone, on the road of life.

You entered the world naked. You will leave that way.

-- Janet Boyer, Amazon Hall of Fame/Vine Reviewer, author of Back in Time Tarot, Tarot in Reverse (Schiffer 2012) and the Snowland Tarot (Schiffer 2013). Featured in Tales of the Revolution: True Stories of People Who Are Poking the Box and Making a Difference (A Domino Project eBook edited by Seth Godin