Doesn’t it seem strange that in all the altruistic inclinations, in all we have to give, in the urge to be there for others and ease suffering wherever we can, it so often slips our mind to take care of “me”, to love “me” – as if there is something selfish and rude about it, something unseemly and greedy. There is not. You cannot give away what you don’t have.

What if you suddenly realized this life could feel much more like heaven if you only learned to unconditionally accept and love the whole you as you do with people in your life? What if it hit you like a ton of bricks that there is nothing more demanded of you in your mission here than to be exactly who you are, not mutating or stifling parts of you that are weird or quirky, not dismissing skills that are not easily cashed in and not ignoring the voices that tell you there is a better way while you get conform bit by bit? What if you realized that there is no true and honest service to your fellow man before you stop judging your mirror companion so harshly? What if you saw that the defeatist feelings of being lost or inadequate are not the reflection of reality but a symptom of trying to be what you’re not? No, there si no need to try and be perfect, but to try and be you. How many of the spaces in you would be healed if you just realized that loving yourself is a precondition to loving the world. It is not selfish, it is necessary.

You knew who you were when you were a kid and had no problem showing. This was, of course, very low resolution since there were still many things you didn’t know but still you were already there in full. And then, somehow, you forgot along the way as you tried to fit in and looked for outside guidance as a backlash of forgetting your mission. Of course you cannot live up to the ideal you were conditioned to believe you’re supposed to be like. No one can. That person is not real, just a conglomerate of a collective desire from which all inadequacies of being human have been dropped.

Love is one of those things that has an endless spreading potential, like a positive virus that spreads by contact and exposure and comes from a place that cannot be depleted because the more you spill out the more of it generates and circles back. If you’re an expression of a universal life force (however you want to look at this meta “entity”, being good like, energetic or mystical all permeating nonmaterial everything…) then how can you not love yourself? – You’re all here all the time, things are waiting to be activated and used, opened and woken up. The sole immense capacity for love and good already redeemed all the dark pieces. Love yourself in order to be able to act with love – no masks, no pretenses, no agendas, no expectation – just love.