Acceptance - true. We should accept many many mistakes that we still have to make in our lifetime.
Let us say unconditional love is the goal (it is, at least for me). One thinks: Oh I first have to learn how to love myself and then I will be able to love others. Maybe that is partly true. I have a different truth. I think we first have to learn to love and care for others (get out of that me, me, me concept) and then love for ourselves will be implied.
I REALLY love this addition to my little thoughts. I think both are important, but it's very true that we emphasize "self-love" over loving others, and this probably really damages us! We are made to give ourselves and love others, and often do find the capacity to love ourselves when we see our capacity to love others and be loved by them.
Really glad you mentioned this :)
Now I'm even more glad that I did. I think it is just the Western society that puts individuality in the first place. Don't get me wrong, there is nothing bad about being independent, it is just that I see no purpose living for just yourself, in the sense that you don't make other people lives better as well. It would be really selfish, empty.
It still amazes me the depth of conversations here on steemit. Don't you just love this community?
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