To: K-list
Recieved: 2004/08/14 15:14
Subject: Re: [K-list] Loving myself
From: Hbarrett47
On 2004/08/14 15:14, Hbarrett47 posted thus to the K-list:
In a message dated 8/13/2004 3:53:56 PM Mountain Standard Time,
thelonepathATyahoo.co.uk writes:
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;
Great topic. Some of the confusion comes in how the subject is discussed. I
believe that it is NOT loving self that creates self-obsession. Depressed
people, for example, are among the most self-absorbed in the world -- as their
friends and family can attest. Paradoxically, loving self means complete
acceptance of oneself as a flawed, beautiful human being, which leads to
unselfconsciousness and an actual forgetting of self most of the time. I, personally,
could not even approach this stance until I had some experience with
non-duality where I could see how I was part of a vast whole. Then the whole idea of a
personal self became irrelevant and acceptance was inherent to being. One of
the great lessons of being a psychologist is seeing that we are similar and
ordinary in our flaws and neuroses, and special and awesome in our gifts. Many
of us have this backwards. Holly
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