PLEASE NOTE THIS... YOU ARE THE MASTER OF YOUR OWN DESTINY - you and ONLY you are responsible for your own life. Even if you are one of those who believe in karma and fate (and I am), please understand that YOU are the one that sets the ball rolling for your own karma through choices that YOU have made throughout your lifetimes. The world does not owe anyone anything... the world exists as it is because we have made it so through our own free will. And through our own free will we can change it... and THAT'S an encouraging thought!Listen to all the advice and guidance that you are ever given from anyone else, even if you don't agree with it, listen... but know that the first and last person you should be listening to is you.
Don't blame your mother for the father you never had; don't blame your father for the anger you project; don't blame your first love for the walls around your heart...
...but live in the freedom of the knowledge that you exist, in all your pain and glory, because you have made it so.
Once we accept responsibility for our own souls, once we understand that we are worth our own advice, we begin to see our paths unfold before us... more than that, we begin to see ourselves on it.
Listen to your heart and soul, to your visions, fantasies, dreams and daydreams, for they show you your secret self... they show you your fears and desires. They are tools through which your Higher Self can reach you. "Gnothi Seauton" and you will know your path.
No one else can do it for you.
Be your own guru.