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If you cease to identify as "the self" (aka the psychological/emotional self concept), nothing others say can inflate or diminish you. There will be nothing to inflate or diminish, as it is truly only ever an idea being impacted. This idea creates "self-esteem".

If you are simply as you are, a flowing part of the whole, what is there to think or feel about yourself? You are as you are, as everyone is as they are, as everything is as it is.

Don't think about yourself as an individual. It's an illusory idea you're conjuring, based in your fluctuating judgements. Don't compare your ideas about yourself with your ideas about others. Don't believe others' ideas about themselves or their ideas about you.

Don't think about yourself at all. Just be yourself. Just be.