If we want to reconcile with our family or with friends who have hurt us, we have to take care of ourselves first. If we’re not capable of listening to ourselves, how can we listen to another person? If we don’t know how to recognise our own suffering, it won’t be possible to bring peace and harmony into our relationships.

Self-love is doing what we need to do to feel whole again.

We must do what we can to mend our lives, we owe that to ourselves – but we need to be careful not to break others while achieving that.

The first step to loving someone else is to recognize the evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them.

If we really want to love others, we must first begin to love one another in our own home. Love begins at home, and so from here-from our own home-love will spread to my neighbor, in the street I live, in the town I live, in the whole world.

We must love one another or die

With mindfulness, loving kindness, and self-compassion, we can begin to let go of our expectations about how life and those we love should be.

If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive.

we can only love others as much as we love ourselves

To love humanity, you must start by loving individual persons, by fulfilling your responsibility to those you love.

When things fall apart and we can’t get the pieces back together, when we lose something dear to us, when they whole thing is just not working and we don’t know what to do, this is the time when the natural warmth of tenderness, the warmth of empathy and kindness, are just waiting to be uncovered, just waiting to be embraced. This is our chance to come out of our self-protecting bubble and to realize that we are never alone. This is our chance to finally understand that wherever we go, everyone we meet is essentially just like us. Our own suffering, if we turn toward it, can open us to a loving relationship with the world.

If grief can be a doorway to love, then let us all weep for the world we are breaking apart so we can love it back to wholeness again.

We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.

We need people to feel happy and fulfilled and loved so they don’t take their shit out on themselves and other people and the planet and our animal friends.