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Recieved: 2004/08/14 16:23
Subject: Re: [K-list] Loving myself
From: Forrest Curo

> this question of people not loving
>themselves has puzzled me for years
>

>> 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.
>
A (4th grade) teacher I know quotes someone to the effect that there are
two things he wants to teach the kids:
1) how to fall in love

and

2) how to stay in love.

As you can guess, this is not about "being in love WITH someone," but
being in that state about anything whatsoever. Which is the opposite of
self-absorption: being interested, open, alert to what's there--even if
it happens to be themselves. The trouble with what we call
"self-absorption" is that it's a curling up about a wound, a basically
painful condition that interferes with openness to anything whatsoever.

Forrest Curo

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