To: K-list
Recieved: 2004/08/13 21:51
Subject: Re: [K-list] Loving myself
From: Lone Path
On 2004/08/13 21:51, Lone Path posted thus to the K-list:
Hi Rick,
No disrespect to anyone here but this question of people not loving themselves has puzzled me for years and I still wonder today how that can be because we do everything for ourselves don´t we; we make sure we get what we want, we make sure we only give when we want to or what we want to give, we make sure that we are comfortable, we make sure that we don´t feel pain, we do everything to give ourselves pleasure and happiness, everything we do is for ‘me´ – so how can we not love ‘me´? As far as I am concerned, we all love ‘me´ so much so that it can even be detrimental to others because we tend to put ourselves first unless it suits us to put the ‘me´ second, no? Is this not self-love, and love in abundance? Is this not separation from others rather than separation from oneself? I may want to be slimmer, more beautiful, more this or that, but does that really deter me from loving ‘me´? I wonder. Is acceptance love? And don´t we still love ourselves even if we don´t accept
various parts of ‘me´?
Have you ever thought about this? Every time I hear someone say I have to learn to love myself, I really fail to see that they don´t to be quite honest.
Also, there is the fact of the desire to want to love ourselves – is that not self-love also, to want the very best for ourselves, to give to ourselves in abundance? Why would you want to love yourself unless you already did?
Perhaps I am wrong, perhaps I am still confused, but I really can´t see it, all I can see is that we all love ourselves over and above everyone and this is expressed by the ego. Perhaps you are talking about a different type of love, what I call ‘Love´, but this type of ‘Love´ does not need to ‘Love´ itself, it ‘Loves´ Itself which is everything and everyone without the wanting or the need to accept.
Please do feel free to explain so that I can understand why you, or anyone else for that matter, feels that they don´t love themselves, or not enough at least.
Best wishes and much Love,
Grotweed
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