Have you ever thought about it? Do you love yourself? Have you any respect for yourself? Forget about love, forget about respect; do you even accept yourself as you are?There is condemnation; you would like to be somebody else, you don’t want to be yourself – not at all. A person who has become capable of deep love towards himself becomes capable of loving others. If you cannot love yourself, how can you love others? It must first happen within you. People try to love others, not being at all aware that they have not even loved themselves. How can you love others? That which you don’t have you cannot share.
EACH CHILD IS BORN WITH GREAT RESPECT FOR HIMSELF:
Each child knows his worth, his intrinsic worth. And each child loves himself, respects himself. It is you who teach him just the opposite. First you destroy all that is beautiful in him, and then you make him absolutely false. Why is this done? Because only false people can be slaves, only false people can follow stupid politicians, only false people can be victims of utterly ignorant priests. If people are real, they cannot be exploited and cannot be oppressed.
ONLY A MAN WHO LOVES HIMSELF CAN MEDITATE:
Who wants to look at an ugly face and who wants to penetrate into an ugly being? Who wants to go deep into one’s own mud, into one’s own darkness? Who wants to enter into the hell that you think you are? You want to keep this whole thing covered up with beautiful flowers and you want always to escape from yourself. Hence people are seeking company continuously. They can’t be with themselves; they want to be with others.
ACCEPT YOUR LIMITATIONS, ACCEPT YOUR IMPERFECTIONS:
That’s what it means to be human being! And accept yourself as you are with joy, not in helplessness. Because existence accepts you, accept yourself; love yourself. Let there be a great upsurge of self love. And out of that love you will start becoming creative; a person who loves himself is bound to become creative.
YOU ARE A CONDITIONED HUMAN BEING:
Unless you become aware, you will not be able to see that you are a conditioned human being, that you are living with borrowed ideas – ideas which have been imposed by others on you against your will- that you are almost a prisoner. Not that you live in a prison, but you live in an ideology which is a subtle prison. You are a Hindu, how can you be innocent? You are a Christian, how can you be innocent? The ideology keeps you away from innocence; it makes you knowledgeable, and knowledgeability is the only thing that destroys innocence.
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