HOW TO LOVE YOURSELF
The First Principle of Self-love is to see that you want to be happy.
The Second Principle of Self-love is to see that you can be happy.
The Third Principle of Self-love is that love for yourself alone is only right
and nothing else is possible and nothing else can cause you to be happy.
The Fourth Principle of Self-love is seeing that fear of unhappiness is the
cause of all human evil for you do evil for you think it is going to make you
happy and fear is caused by ignorance. Because self-love or happiness is the
root of all good fear, has to be the origin of evil as manifested by humankind.
The Fifth Principle of Self-love is the recognition that you cause the fears you
have and so only you can undo them and that nobody or nothing can make you
unhappy unless you let them get them get to you.
The Sixth Principle of Self-love is not to try and force yourself to be happy or
happier but to just let it happen and accept whatever amount of happiness you
have. This avoids stress and fear which both increase unhappiness.
The Seventh Principle of Self-love is that you must reduce your needs. Be
easygoing.
The Eighth Principle of Self-love is that you must do good to yourself and
others and that will break down the barriers inside your head and heart that
prevent happiness in yourself from emerging but do it to see that you are good
not to earn a sense of that you are good.
The Ninth Principle of Self-love is to see that you must do everything altruists
say you must do but the only difference is to have respect for yourself. This
way you manage to retain the benefits of altruism and improve it by putting in
the best of egoism. Neither altruism or egoism is perfect but egoism is the best
of the two.
The Tenth Principle of Self-love is that you will be happier when doing kind
deeds, if you forget what is in it for you and this act of forgetting is itself
an act of self-love. When you have problems no matter how small it always helps
to get your mind off yourself by keeping busy. This is a selfish act for you
seek the pleasure of forgetting about what bothers you.
The Eleventh Principle of Self-love is that you should never condemn yourself no
matter what you do but believe that what wrong you do is not you but faults in
the programming in you. This attitude will remove guilt gradually.
The Twelfth Principle of Self-love is that you must not worry about what others
think but just do good so that what bad things they think become insignificant.
This involves the abandonment of the concept of a nosey God.