– Abraham Hicks
Since I always strive to do the right thing and be kind to everyone I meet, I have for years believed myself to be at peace with who I am and to generally like and feel good about myself. Then out of nowhere, I was attacked by a total stranger for my spiritual beliefs, and instead of those arrows just bouncing off my shiny, impenetrable auric armor, they pierced me to the core and left me reeling with self-doubt. The more I ruminate on all of this and seek ways to make myself feel better, the more caught up in it I become, which just leaves me feeling even worse. What makes me feel better is to forget about it and simply focus on giving others all the love, kindness, approval and understanding I crave myself. They say that in order to love another, we must first love ourselves, but maybe they’ve got it backward: maybe in order to really love ourselves, we must first love others as we wish to be loved.