This is the root of it, isn't it? The endless judgement that we dole out for ourselves is not unlike the judgement we dole out for others. Where is the love?
Actually what I think is the more love you give away freely, the more abundant love you find you have. You ultimately love and accept yourself for being disciplined and responsible enough to do so.
Great question! In my opinion, it's tough to love your neighbor more than yourself. I believe that the best thing we can do is find anything to love, even the smallest thing, and then widen the small crack that's made. If you can just appreciate ...
Thank you James for your kind response. I am still not sure what love truly is. I am focusing on acceptance, compassion and kindess towards myself and others.
Yarokit - you're not going to believe this. I just turned & opened my PR plan (of all things) for this site, and sitting there was a quote from Pema Chodron: "We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ours...