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Conversely, there is always the risk that a fundamental self-acceptance will render a person insensitive to the importance of moral values, but this is only to say that without risk there is no freedom.
The fear that self-acceptance necessarily annihilates ethical judgment is groundless, for we are perfectly able to distinguish between up and down at any point on the earth’s surface, realizing at the same time that there is no up and down in the larger framework of the cosmos.
Self-acceptance is therefore the spiritual and psychological equivalent of space, of a freedom which does not annihilate distinctions but makes them possible.

Alan Watts ~ Nature man and woman (pg 133)