Let us go logically, slowly.
Self-acceptance can be considered a decent goal in life.
To accept oneself, one must know what one is. And how do we do that? We start by examining ourselves. We find out we are many things, some reducible to body, some irreducible, such as the mind. So we are an irreducible thing overall. Which means we can think of ourselves as a huge never-ending list. We are this, this, and this…and so on. Another name of this situation is called possibility. We are, thus, sites of possibility. You can be a scientist today, and a rapist tomorrow. (Some are both at the same time haha)
So, we have arrived at what we are: sites of possibilities.
I will take a moment to take my hat off to Walt Whitman (contain multitudes), tat-twam-asi (you are that), Ibn Arabi (Wujud) and the like.
We are clearly in the realm of mysticism now. Goodbye metaphysics.
Stay calm, do not panic.
Now, the goal itself. Self acceptance.
Accepting that we are sites of possibilities can be difficult for some people. For instance, me. I am told by my therapist that I do not accept myself.
This is where I got stuck.