First you give love to yourself
Then give love to others
THIS is the formula
Formula to what?
To every time you feel anything less than love
Anything less than love is not exactly ideal, is it
Anger is not fun
Resentment is not fun
Greed is not fun
Need is not fun
etc…
Obviously you’d rather experience love
You only experience those feelings BECAUSE you don’t YET love yourself
You only experience those feelings BECAUSE you don’t YET love the gift of life
If you experienced love — obviously you wouldn’t choose those lesser emotions, lesser states
Now obviously when you experience those states — you don’t exactly think of love
You don’t even remember love
You only remember your madness, your determination, your pride, your stubbornness, your little fucking problems
Greed breeds more greed, dissatisfaction breeds more dissatisfaction, resentment breeds more resentment, and so on,
Therefore this is the formula:
First you give love to yourself
Then give love to others
You literally override whatever emotion, whatever attitude is subjugating you today
How does it work?
The point is that the only thing that you should bother with is LOVE
It’s the highest emotion to experience
It’s the highest paradigm from which to build
It’s the highest state
You love yourself, and you love the gift of life, and you love the world, and you love others
You do it in that order — because you’re only so capable of love
You’re lucky if you’ve enough love to even love yourself,
To even take good care of your own self
Once you’re busy LOVE — there’s really no time to bother with anything else. And obviously no point.
That’s how it works, basically
It’s not ambiguous
DO THE BEST YOU CAN DO FOR YOURSELF, as though you LOVED yourself
THAT’S what it means
When you’re busy taking BEST CARE OF YOURSELF, LOVING YOURSELF — you don’t fucking have time for nonsense of resentment, nonsense of anger, nonsense of negativity
All that fucking bullshit is a distraction
Start by loving yourself — and the world’s nonsense becomes a distraction
…THEN you move on to the second part of the formula — giving love to others
Why would you give love to others?
Could be selfishly and pragmatically — to acquire even more love in return
(e.g. investing in others, but obviously earning interest)
Or could be simply because it’s the only way to grow YET beyond yourself. By connecting to the whole. By LOVING something greater than yourself, CARING for something greater than yourself, ELEVATING something greater than yourself
Therefore this is the formula
Love yourself so much that you’re too fucking busy for nonsense
Once you loved yourself well enough — love others as much as you can
This simple formula will solve a lot of problems
It’s simple, but we fail to understand it, fail to use it. We waste life on unending nonsense torn by negativity, slights, struggles, expectations, conflicting desires, blablabla
There’s no time for it
Love yourself more, give yourself more love, first, before all else, there’s no time for nothing else
When you’ve too much, give to others