A further note on the previous topic...
I offer the perspective in my previous post that as important as loving one's self is, being loved by others is just as essential to a whole and healthy human life. Comments to that lead me to postscript: We cannot be loved until we love our selves: not because no one will love us, but because we won't be able to receive it. We, finding insufficient reason to love ourselves, will simply not believe anyone else truly can: they must be mistaken; they don't know who we really are, so their love is... Sign in to see full entry.