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Invisiblecez
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Unconditional love of oneself
    #18803739 - 09/05/13 03:26 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Icelander brought this up in another post and made me wonder...

Can you "love" your self unconditionally?

I'm going to define love in this instance as contentment since we cant agree as to what love even is.

I think one can although it would require constant unconditional forgiveness since we are constantly making mistakes.

Stepping away from our egos and realizing our problems and quandries we've put ourselves in doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things helps me forgive myself...But I still have a hard time doing this because I really want a cool ego that the general public vibes with :cool:


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Re: Unconditional love of oneself [Re: cez] * 1
    #18803787 - 09/05/13 03:36 PM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Lets face it. We just aren't together enough for unconditional anything.  But that doesn't mean it's not a worthy benchmark to aspire to and work towards. And any improvement is worth having.


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" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

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Re: Unconditional love of oneself [Re: Icelander]
    #18806267 - 09/06/13 05:37 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

Shedding your ego involves stopping the care of the advancement of yourself, and putting that energy towards the service and advancement of others. Wierd, but once the spotlight is off of ourselves, that's when we really shine the brightest.


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Re: Unconditional love of oneself [Re: Lucid_Pupil]
    #18806301 - 09/06/13 06:07 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

I don't think so. Without regard for your own advancement you are of no use to others. This is different from total self absorption. Plus there is no such thing as shedding of your ego.


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" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

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Re: Unconditional love of oneself [Re: Lucid_Pupil]
    #18806508 - 09/06/13 08:22 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

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Lucid_Pupil said:
Shedding your ego involves stopping the care of the advancement of yourself, and putting that energy towards the service and advancement of others. Wierd, but once the spotlight is off of ourselves, that's when we really shine the brightest.




Is there any reasoning behind that?

What is shedding an ego and why is it necessary. I've studied buddhism and hinduism in depth for years, its bs. The whole 'shedding ego' thing is an assumption, as much as "faith" is.


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Re: Unconditional love of oneself [Re: cez]
    #18806512 - 09/06/13 08:24 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

On topic I view emotional security like any other bodily function, anything can heal with enough time. Lets say you were a child soldier in Africa raping and pillaging without any real choice in the matter, eventually on your own you have to face your past. With enough time I think even those kind of injuries can heal.

That's if you have the time :shrug: there's only so much of that commodity


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Re: Unconditional love of oneself [Re: Repertoire89]
    #18806615 - 09/06/13 09:01 AM (10 years, 4 months ago)

There is the possibility of healing (depending on severity) but it more often doesn't happen in a lifetime.  Things at best only get a little better.


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" All that lives was born to die"-Anom.

With much wisdom comes much sorrow,
The more knowledge, the more grief.
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