There is something to be said about knowing thyself. Once you know who you are and what you stand for your life begins to take shape into everything you've ever dreamed it to be. Self knowledge invites wisdom and understanding and you realize you really don't have to engage in useless never ending arguments that has no beginning and no end.
For instance, at times I feel this incredible desire to experience deep love for another - this yearning it turns out is for love of self. It's amazing that our entire journey on this planet in this form is to experience ourselves as LOVE. That's it very simple, we know intuitively that our nature is love and somehow we got separated from our inner joy ever since then we've been looking for ourselves - a mirror to reflect that beauty that we are.
Wow...and that's when I realized that falling in love with myself is the love that is first required before all other loves follow. It is a wonderful feeling to bathe in this epiphany knowing that the greatest love is love of self, to be patient and kind, to be tender and honest in what we feel about ourselves and not to be too harsh in judgement or too self critical. It is all good - to be gentle with ourselves as we are our own redeemer.
