Rumi said, “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
Loving ourselves is natural, but for most of us there are barriers within ourselves that have clouded it. In this lesson, Rev. Nancy discusses how we create conditions, debts, and substitutions as mental states preventing us from loving ourselves. As we become aware of these, we will F.L.Y. Flow Love to Yourself! Fully Love Yourself!
Here’s a wonderful poem written many years ago we hope you’ll like as much as we do~
“Loving Yourself”
by Jo Courdert
You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship truly crucial and central in a life is the relationship with the self.
It is rewarding to find someone whom you like, but it is essential to like yourself.
It is quickening to recognize that someone is a good and decent human being, but is indispensable to view yourself as acceptable.
It is a delight to discover people who are worthy of respect and admiration and love, but it is vital to believe yourself deserving of these things.
For you cannot live in someone else.
You cannot find yourself in someone else.
Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never leave nor lose. To the question of life, you are the only answer.
To the problems of life, you are the only solution.