How to Love Yourself

Self-love comes from self-knowledge, because what you are is love.

To love yourself is to know yourself as love.

Lack of self love comes from self misperception.

To know yourself only as a seperate individual entity with a name form and location is to partially know yourself which is to misperceive yourself.

To know yourself as the fullness of life, the wholeness of creation and the perfection of existence temporarily playing the part of a seperate person is to perceive yourself correctly.

Imagine two waves.

One wave knows itself only as a “wave”. It compares, competes, fears the passing of time, and clings to its temporary form.

The other wave knows it is the ocean, temporarily appearing as a wave. It accepts whatever happens without fear. Because it knows that what it is never began and will never end.

One wave is being itself knowingly.

The other is being itself unknowingly.

To know yourself is to shift from believing “I am a person who is conscious” to recognizing “I am consciousness experiencing itself as a person.”

Consciousness is wholeness.

Wholeness is love.

When consciousness knows itself as consciousness — while playing the part of a person — there’s a deep, felt understanding of being whole, complete, and undivided.

And that is what self-love really is.

4 Practices for Self-Remembrance

Step 1: Ask for it

Open your heart and invite clarity. A simple prayer like:

“Holy Spirit, I ask that I may perceive myself correctly and be released from all false identity,”

creates the space for truth to be revealed rather than constructed.

Step 2: See in others what you wish to see in yourself

When you choose to see others as extensions of God’s being, the peace and awareness of that same being becomes more available to you. Every face, every tree, every creature reflects the same source you share.

Step 3: Question your current assumptions

Gently examine the ideas you hold about yourself. Ask

“What do I currently believe that I am, and is that actually what I am?”

•“Who am I being in this moment?”

“From where is what I’m saying or doing coming — awareness of my true Self or ignorance of it?”

This kind of inquiry loosens false identity and invites truth to surface.

Step 4: Affirm the truth to yourself

What you say and think matters, for mind governs matter.

Whenever you feel inspired — and especially when triggered — use an affirmation, silently or aloud, to re-establish yourself in truth:

“I am One Self, united with Creation.”

“My heart knows the truth of oneness, behind the illusion of separation my senses perceive.”

“Without lack or division, I am the peace of perfect Oneness.”