The Seer

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If you can love your enemies, although you don’t like them, you may even be able to love those aspects of yourself you don’t like. For many of us this is the most difficult challenge. We are so self-critical we cripple ourselves with self-loathing, which actually makes it harder to change.

Try a different approach. Be patient and tolerant with yourself. Accept that you are sometimes lost in separateness. We’re all waking up, which means we’re all asleep to different degrees. It’s not easy being a person. Cut yourself some slack! Love yourself anyway.

Genuine self-love is possible only through self-knowledge. If you become conscious of your essential nature you will be able to unconditionally love your apparent nature, with all its faults and foibles. Try it out. Transcend your personal nature altogether and hold both the good and the bad aspects of yourself within awareness.

Your personal self is like an immature child. Sometimes selfish and prone to tantrums, wanting what it can’t have and what isn’t good for it anyway, easily lost and quick to complain. And yet, exquisitely beautiful, nevertheless.

Lovingly parent yourself. Bad parents constantly criticise and love conditionally. Good parents criticize when necessary, but always love unconditionally whatever the child may say or do. Love yourself unconditionally. This is not an indulgence. It is the ground from which you can compassionately criticize those parts of yourself that need to change.

From: The Laughing Jesus by Timothy Freke. You’ll find an in-depth interview with Tim and MarkMolaro on YouTube >Here