The Self

The self is perfect. Without flaw. Without faults.
All seemingly "faults" are just an illusion, in your eyes, in the eyes of others. They don't exist.
Because the self is already perfect, it never needs to change; if it desires to change, then purely for its own pleasures.
It needs to achieve nothing, attain nothing, in order to be perfect, and to stay perfect.
It is infinitely beautiful. Wonderful. Marvelous. Adorable. Lovable.
There is nothing evil about the self; because it is perfect, it is entirely good, true, right.

Those religions that claim to acknowledge the self, but say the self would be a kind of "higher self" that first needs to be found, attained, that one can only became part of through hardships and worship, lie.
The perfect, true self is not something that is hidden far above, or far away. It is *your* self. Your ordinary, everyday self that you know, that you are each day and each time, is already perfect, beautiful, and all the things that were mentioned here before.
In this sense, there is no higher self that you need to attain, because you are already this self. With all your flaws and worries and imperfection and mistakes - for these are just an illusion. You already are perfect. You already are true.

Most people try to split themselves into two parts; one part that they like and one part that they hate. For example, they might like their intellectual capabilities or feelings of confidence or similar things, but hate their anxieties, perceived lack of talent, weakness, emotional flaws and so on.
They have a whole part of themselves that they reject, and would like to split off, and essentially they think: ah, if one day I could get rid of this part of me forever, this part that is flawed, I could be a truly happy person.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
All parts of yourself are perfect. All your supposed flaws and seemingly negative aspects are actually wonderful and perfect, too.

If, one day, you follow this, and learn to accept your "negative" side, too, and fully acknowledge it, you will be whole for once. And then you can see how beautiful your own self really is.

This is the way to embrace your self and see its magnificence, and be truly happy.

All questions will be solved then. All answers will be given then.

To address possible criticism: if you assume you have tendencies in your self that might be extensively harmful to yourself and others if you "put these in reality", then this is of course not the way to go.
Putting things into reality is whole different topic. You would not put all your "positive" aspects into reality either (for example, you might be extremely smart, and think you could doctorate in dozens of fields if you wanted to, even if it's theoretically true, it would be very unlikely you would actually do this, since very sensible way to go, to spend all your energies for many years on such a task which might not lead you anywhere).

This is about embracing your self on a mental, emotional, individual level.