SELF-LOVE IS TOUGH LOVE
Self-love is not dependent on self-praise but rather is fortified through a keeping of a sacred curiosity with one’s own weaknesses.
Self-love is a willingness to gather that ever fragile courage to soften into the places where you most often defend…
to linger in the admission of insecurity…
to be generous with confessions of wrongdoing…
to tenderly examine the most hard to reach corners of our most disowned selves and say you too belong here.
Self-love is a gentle revolt against that tide of self-deception that keep us perpetually estranged from recognizing the oneness in all beings.