One first has to love oneself. Those who say, “First love humanity, then think of yourself,” are mistaken. Love, spontaneous love, must first grow inside. We cannot grow love in the supermarket or in the subway station. Love has to be grown here, deep within us. When we see and feel and become love, only then can we offer our love to the rest of humanity.
When the real, the highest, the most illumined part in us comes to the fore, at that time we really love ourselves. We love ourselves because we know who we are. Love is not a kind of outer movement or action. Love is life, and life itself is spontaneous nectar and delight.
You follow
Your heart’s love.
Your life’s happiness
Will follow you.
If you feel that you do not know how to love yourself, only feel that you have entered into a garden with many, many flowers. Choose one flower that you like and go near it. Appreciate its beauty and smell its fragrance. Then just say to yourself a few times, “How I wish I could be as pure and as beautiful as this flower.”
After five minutes, try to imagine that an infinitesimal amount of beauty from that flower has entered into you. Then gradually try to feel that all the good qualities you are seeing in the flower – its beauty, its purity, its fragrance and so on – have entered into you and are inside you.
Now remember how much you loved that flower and how much joy it gave you. At first it had a separate existence. But little by little you brought its beauty and reality inside your own body and inside your own heart. Then try to feel that you do not have a body, you do not have a mind, you do not have anything. Think of yourself only as that most beautiful flower. Because you have become that beautiful flower, you are bound to appreciate yourself and love yourself the way that you loved the flower.
Secrecy’s sacred door
Is now wide open:
Ecstasy’s satisfaction-core
Will be all mine
If I can love myself
Spontaneously.
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