Living From Our Heart

"For me, I worked for years covering over sore lesions of esteem with agitations of accomplishment, til my heart was covered over with a thicket of achievements." Mark Nepo

I wonder if that is not the way most of us live.  I know I certainly have.  Tried to bolster my self esteem with accomplishments and achievements.  It is a futile expense of energy.  Not that accomplishments in themselves are bad; it is just ill placed when we try to build our self esteem with their scaffolding.  Self esteem must come, it seems to me, from just learning to like oneself for who we are.