Worth repeating over and over:
Love for yourself is not, and cannot be, love for a reason.
It cannot have any justification.
If it has a reason or justification, that's not unconditional love.
It's not about your qualities.
Newborns deserve love. You deserve newborn love.
the next stage of capitalism is love love your customer and your supplier love your investor and your lender and your creditor charge fair market price with heartfelt gratitude, pay fair market price with heartfelt gratitude love capitalism https://t.co/fpILvFa4AP
Ok so my mind is exploding and I need to share it: we're all confused because we think of love as romantic love (eros) instead of self-less love (agape). This is why you can't love yourself, and how you can:
Heuristic for if you have self-love (that I’ve seen a bunch of people reach!): walking around alone feels kind of like walking with someone you have a crush on