Self love free.

[sjoes006]

Buddha: Teaching of Self-Love“You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha

An important core teaching in Buddhism is self-love. Buddha teaches that you love the self before extending the love to others. In other words, before you are able to be a love luminary, you must have the capacity to embrace yourself fully. Today being Vesak Day, let’s celebrate Buddha’s teachings about love.

Buddha observes, “you can travel around the world to search for someone more lovable than yourself, and yet that person is never to be found.” In other words, the search is not external but internal. You first find it from within. To love the self is to be in continuous connection with your true essence. You learn to accept, appreciate and affirm who you are.

Unconditional love and compassion are divine qualities of your intrinsic nature. When you connect from the inside, you experience the unfolding of wisdom. An inability to experience true self-love leads to love as something conditional. You love yourself if and only if you fulfill a certain expectation of the self. Your love for others also becomes conditional.

[capturemyheartnow]

Unless you learn to love yourself you won't be able to love others. Unless you are happy , you cannot spread happiness to others. Unless you know to do things by yourself , you cannot teach others. So everything starts with self and then spreads to others.

[sjoes006]

It comes from within not outward. Americans are still learning this.

[capturemyheartnow]

True.

[Eternallylucky]

I really like to think that self love is derived from the realisation of the fact, all humans have intrinsic freedom and rights and one of these intrinsic rights are we need to love ourselves first before we can care for others or lead a community.

[Ovidiu-Nicolae]

I preety much donțt know to love myself I just use myself

[sjoes006]

I think that is the most common response. If your parents didn't teach you your value you may have never learned it. But we each have equal value and the most important thing to learn before you can love someone else is how to truly love yourself.

It doesn't matter how imperfect you think you are. That beautiful person has flaws. The guy begging on the street has worth. Your worth comes from within. It comes from your belief in and acceptance of yourself.

One bad deed or good deed doesn't make you. Your intuition and intention make you.

[Ovidiu-Nicolae]

My parents try the best they can, even if sometime they had conflict with things they said to me

[Waffles731]

I'm just trying to accept the fact that chances are I'll never like myself

[sjoes006]

It'd a choice line a light switch. Focus on the good or focus on the bad. Bad leads to more bad good leads to more good. certainly you aren't perfect as none of us are but there is so much good in you. I see it everyday, I hope soon you do too.

Focus on what works not what doesn't. You have the strength of this whole community behind you influencer.

[coolbreeze]

Nice mytake very motivational.

[Blitzkrieger]

This is a nice mytake 👍