Evolving and bettering yourself is wonderful, but not if the set of standards and values you adopt smother you into oblivion in the process.
Taking advice is fine; by all means, be open-minded, but not to the point of allowing others to obliterate your uniqueness.
Ascension through all levels of consciousness and awareness can only happen when you live life as you, and not how others think you should live. How could self-realization possibly be anything other than being yourself?
Resist the suppressive pressure to contract and instead expand in defiance.
It is essential that you follow your own idea of passion, even if to others it looks like suffering.
If you can't be who you really are then what is life but an unbearable lie?
All pain in life comes from suppressing your true identity.
Your number one mission in life is to be who you were intended to be.
The struggle to excavate your true, authentic self from beneath the mountain of conditioning and ridiculous expectation is the epic struggle of your lifetime.
Our identities are tremendously warped and distorted by yesterday's trauma and tomorrow's expectations.