Tuesday, December 5, 2006

To be oneself!

So, what's a nice, Chicago-born, working class, first-generation Mexican-American boy doing in New York City living as a marginally observant Jewish east Harlem clinical social worker and adjunct professor of speech?

Long story. However, I have always tried to live by Rabbi Hillel the Elder's admonition and advice regarding authenticity:

"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?"

This blog is for those of us who have had the courage to follow our innermost and most truthful voices in the face of fear and self-doubt. I invite you to post or comment on your struggles to achieve authenticity, and the lessons you may have learned on the journey.

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