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"Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality." Erich Fromm



My declaration of Self

by Virginia Satir

I AM ME
In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me

Everything that comes out of me is authentically me

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 to myself – I own my fanatasies,
My dreams, my hopes, my fears – I own all 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 me in 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 for 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 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

© Virginia Satir, 1975.

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