To love someone else is easy, but to love what you are, the thing that is yourself, is just as if you were embracing a glowing red-hot iron: it burns into you and that is very painful. Therefore, to love somebody else in the first place is always an escape which we all hope for, and we all enjoy it when we are capable of it. But in the long run, it comes back on us. You cannot stay away from yourself forever, you have to return, have to come to that experiment, to know whether you really can love. That is the question—whether you can love yourself, and that will be the test. – Carl Jung, Nietzsche’s Zarathustra: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1934–1939

the highest act of self-love is to work on a project you’re interested in

– https://twitter.com/metaLulie/status/1433012501696888832

attending to what is most needed in the present moment

meditation

• Loving And Listening To Yourself

See

• fundamental-wellbeing
• compassionate-inquiry
• deep-okayness
• kindness
• meditation.mettā
• wellbeing

Notes

• People equate self-love to sunshine, but in my experience almost all of the work and time and effort is staring directly at your “worst” parts
• You are probably underestimating how good self-love can be
• In context, might I be so bold as to suggest something like, “Generating love within is the secret ingredient for feeling loved” or “Generating self-love is the secret ingredient for feeling loved” and I can’t help but add:
• How I Attained Persistent Self-Love, or, I Demand Deep Okayness For Everyone
• Recently I finally got what "self love" is talking about.
• Self-Love Doesn't Require You to Become Huggy and Passive
• How to Foster Self-Love
• A self-love insight]