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When I love myself least, I am least able to love someone else.
When I am least in love with myself, I am the most self-centered.
I think Narcissists do not love themselves well enough.
When I most love my own soul, I am most capable of loving the souls and selves of others.
When I most love my soul, I am most able to love my self
—my personality, my aging body and face, my limited mind—
my every failing.
—my personality, my aging body and face, my limited mind—
my every failing.
If I love myself, perfectly, I do not need anyone else to love me.
It is no one’s job to love me but my own.
If I do not rely on someone else to love me, I am more capable of being happy.
If I love myself as I am, in spite of my failings, I can love someone else in spite of theirs.
(I am in the process of even learning to love my failings; the correlative impact this will have
on how I view the failings of others is interesting to think about.)
(I am in the process of even learning to love my failings; the correlative impact this will have
on how I view the failings of others is interesting to think about.)
James Hillman, who died Thursday, said,
Why try to eradicate your demons?
Better to learn to live with them.
Why try to eradicate your demons?
Better to learn to live with them.
I think a demon is one part of a whole. Think positive archetype and negative archetype.
Example: mother/victim. If I fall into the victim role (a lifetime habit), perhaps it’s time
to mother myself. There there, Ruth, that doesn’t feel good does it, tell me about it,
says my mother self sitting on the edge of the bed of my pouting, victim self.
No one else should have to do this for me.
Example: mother/victim. If I fall into the victim role (a lifetime habit), perhaps it’s time
to mother myself. There there, Ruth, that doesn’t feel good does it, tell me about it,
says my mother self sitting on the edge of the bed of my pouting, victim self.
No one else should have to do this for me.
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