00:00Most of us do not love ourselves. In fact, if you look at the way we behave and take decisions, you will find that in a hidden way, we hate ourselves. We do things, don't we, that harm us. Somebody keeps on smoking. He knows smoking is bad, still he keeps on smoking.
00:17Somebody knows he must work hard and study or something. He does not do that. Somebody continues to bear in an abusive relationship and never drops out. Why do we do that? Why are all these things indicators of self-love? No, they are indicators of self-hate.
00:37Why do we hate ourselves? Because we have refused our highest possibility to ourselves. You will become guilty in your own eyes and you will not be able to forgive yourself for that. And how can you love someone who can't even be pardoned? So we don't love ourselves.
00:57If you don't love yourself, why will you want to give yourself the best? You will settle for anything normal, usual, mediocre. You can find some kind of false peace in calling yourself an average person. But that will be an inner death.
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