Love Yourself Unconditionally

A spiritual human is taking care of his health because he knows self-love, and he is worshipping nobody because he is taking responsibility for his life. Only if you love yourself you are able to love others. A smoker who is destroying himself does not love himself, and has to learn it first.

The greatest gift that you can give yourself is love and forgiveness – loving and forgiving yourself wholly and truly. Be in love with yourself and you will have no need to look outside for love. When you love yourself, you can never be bored with yourself without the company of other people; you are quite happy to be in your own company, and enjoy it too. 

However, when we talk of self-love, we do not refer to conceit and arrogance. It means to live in acceptance and in harmony with yourself. It is about being content with who you are, so that you have no need to compare yourself with others or to live to please others. It means to stand firmly by that what you think is right for you – to stand by your principles and values that may contradict those of other people. It means to remain peacefully unaffected by people’s criticism and taunts directed at you. You must love yourself truly to ignore people’s caustic remarks and judgments about you. Yet do not walk blind-folded in the midst of fools, thinking you can survive their idiosyncrasies and follies without letting it affect you. There are all kinds of traps laid out for those who wish to live differently from the herd-mentality. You have to be alert to all that goes around you, and diffuse the ticking bombs with the power of love and forgiveness as you go about your journey in life.

It is your conscious awareness that will guard and protect you against the evil around you. This way you will be careful not to internalise all the garbage that is thrown at you. Live free! Live Light!