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Originally Posted by ocean breeze
I don't understand self love. What is it that your loving??? Your personality? Thoughts, feelings? Your body? Everything combined? Are any of those real? The body appears more real than any of those.
I guess self love may be more of a self acceptance thing. Though i'm hoping to lead towards self indifference.
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Agreed, the body is far more real than those other things. ''Loving yourself'' is a vague thing, you have to accept certain abstractions and 'rules' to understand what it means. The same applies to such essentialist things as 'personality'. Essentialist thinking is a huge can of worms.
Of course, many people are in successful relationships and they aren't satisfied in life about many things. And many people who don't really ''love themselves'', by whatever definition, still manage to be in long relationships. If you're gonna wait until you love yourself perfectly than it might as well happen on your last day on earth. Everyone is wonderfully imperfect.