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Originally Posted by Honza
Is there a place for loving God if you are trying to increase your self esteem? Does loving God help self esteem in any way? I would say it does; slowly but surely. God is the macrocosm, while self esteem is the microcosm. The two should go hand in hand, no?
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Does loving God help your self esteem? It can if you allow yourself to receive the same love you give out. If you love a pet, or a loved one, does that love increase your self esteem as well? It can if you allow yourself to receive the same love back, and find yourself worthy of that type of love that you are releasing.. Otherwise you will find yourself able to put out, but unable to receive. Which will not increase your self esteem.
If you accept that you and God are part of the same macro, then you will find that in loving the macro you love yourself because you are the macro. Then your self esteem will start to increase when you feel you are ready to be loved by yourself to yourself.
So either way, your self esteem will increase when you love, when you accept that you are worthy of receiving love.