{"id":138,"date":"2015-10-18T22:30:42","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T02:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marshasummers.com\/wordpress\/?p=138"},"modified":"2015-10-18T22:34:08","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T02:34:08","slug":"who-approves-of-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marshasummers.com\/wordpress\/?p=138","title":{"rendered":"Who Approves of Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Excerpt From Half Moon Bay &#8211; Disk 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(So how much attention or approval \u2013 how much of that do we need? How little&#8230;&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>How much attention and approval do you need? Well, why don&#8217;t you give yourself for what you require?\u00a0 You know, I figure nobody knows how wonderful I am as much as I do.\u00a0 I know people that disapprove of me just got poor taste and I&#8217;m goin&#8217; about my business.\u00a0 Do you know how much you would need to give yourself?\u00a0 You see in the ultimate end, it&#8217;s your own approval you desire, not mine.\u00a0 I can come along and tell you how beautiful you are and how wonderful you are and you&#8217;ll say he was just doin&#8217; this to try to make me feel good.\u00a0 Or he was makin&#8217; fun of me.\u00a0 So it&#8217;s your approval, your image of yourself that counts.\u00a0 So can you give yourself enough approval or do you want some of the rest of us to give it?\u00a0 You&#8217;ll never believe the rest of us anyway, is that right?\u00a0 But we&#8217;ve been taught that we should always put ourselves down.\u00a0 But if you put yourself down, who&#8217;s gonna put you up, is that right?\u00a0 Or you wouldn&#8217;t believe &#8217;em anyway, would you?\u00a0 Hmm?<\/p>\n<p>(No.)<\/p>\n<p>(8:07 CD 2 Half Moon Bay)<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve been told how beautiful you were ever since you was this high, is that right, or before?<\/p>\n<p>(This high.)<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve been told that all of your life, haven&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n<p>(Well, about&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.)<\/p>\n<p>Well <em>most<\/em> of your life, is that right?\u00a0 That you&#8217;re a beautiful lady.\u00a0 Do you buy it or do you think you&#8217;re a &#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(I think they&#8217;re lying.)<\/p>\n<p>Right. So the only approval and attention that really matters is what you give yourself.\u00a0 Now let&#8217;s all get that straight.\u00a0 Now that don&#8217;t mean you&#8217;re conceited or anything of the sort.\u00a0 My mother said there was no conceit in our family, I had it all; but that&#8217;s beside the point.\u00a0 The point is if you can&#8217;t approve of yourself, you won&#8217;t buy it if somebody else does.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve watched you for a long time, too. \u00a0You give you all the attention, all the approval you want and you &#8220;grrrr&#8221; because you don&#8217;t give yourself the attention and approval.\u00a0 You give yourself the &#8220;put down&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>(Yeah.)<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. And you give yourself the put down, is that right?\u00a0 And so&#8217;s about everybody else here.\u00a0 Now we all give ourselves a put down, is that right?\u00a0 Huh?\u00a0 The only attention and approval in the ultimate end that matters is what you give yourself, ok?\u00a0 And that doesn&#8217;t mean that you have to run and tell everybody how wonderful you are, but just so you know it, ok?\u00a0 You don&#8217;t have to tell anybody about it, just so you know it.\u00a0 Then you got plenty of attention.\u00a0 If you need a little more today, give yourself a little more, right?\u00a0 Ok?\u00a0 Next comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt From Half Moon Bay &#8211; Disk 2 (So how much attention or approval \u2013 how much of that do we need? How little&#8230;&#8230;) How much attention and approval do you need? 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