Self-love is the key to happiness
Amrit Sadhana
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Feeling
a healthy love for oneself is the first step a person takes towards finding love
and happiness in his/her life. The first ripple of love must rise in your heart.
When a stone is thrown in a lake it creates ripples around it, the ripples then
spread beyond the stone and towards distant shores. Similarly the first ripples
of love in your heart will spread into different spheres; you will love your
body, your entire being, your totality of existence.
Love is a natural emotion, it
is the panacea to all ills but it seems to have become rarer in the world today.
You need to nurture love in your life, love is beautiful because it beautifies
you. The person who loves himself becomes graceful and elegant. The person who
loves himself is bound to become more silent, more meditative.
Osho strongly propagates
self-love: a person who does not love himself will not be able to love anybody
else, ever. "If you don't love your house you will not clean it; if you don't
love your house you will not paint it; you will not surround it with a beautiful
garden, with a lotus pond. If you love yourself you will create a garden around
yourself. You will try to grow to your potential; you will try to bring out all
that is in you.
If you love,
you will go on showering yourself; you will go on nourishing yourself. And if
you love yourself, you will be surprised; others will love you. Nobody loves a
person who does not love himself. If you cannot even love yourself, who else is
going to take the trouble? The man who does not love himself is full of hatred -
life cannot be neutral. Either hate or love. And the person who hates himself
becomes destructive. The person who hates himself will hate everybody else - he
will be angry and violent and continuously in rage. The person who hates himself
cannot hope that others will love him. His whole life will be destroyed. To love
one self is a great religious value."
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