Do you understand love?
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Only if you love yourself
What is it if you don't love yourself?
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What is it if you don't love yourself?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Megalomania
Maybe the way I would say it is 'extending compassion to the other as if it were yourself.' Its like a rewriting of the golden rule.
I do get what youre saying too.
The topic probably does not go unexplored. Ill do some research.
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Megalomania
Maybe the way I would say it is 'extending compassion to the other as if it were yourself.' Its like a rewriting of the golden rule.
I do get what youre saying too.
The topic probably does not go unexplored. Ill do some research.
Ah, you're referring to the tendency of certain narcissistic people to treat others as an extension of themselves. That's certainly not what I mean.
The golden rule works for the most part, but it also needs to create the Other to work. What I'm thinking about is closer to the philosophy of Ubuntu, sometimes stated as "I am because we are".
Seems to me that someone who hates themselves is living with a tremendous shadow that completely cuts them off from unconditional love. Thus one lives in a constant state of war against themselves. I always enjoyed this clip of Alan Watts reading Carl Jung's thoughts on the subject.
