Often people are made to hate themselves by relatives and friends while they are growing up. Often people are well meaning but don't realize the harm they are doing to friends or relatives and the people they love by saying the wrong things to them.
So, overcoming things that were mistakes said to them growing up is very important.
A parent or guardian or caretaker of a child is very important in a child's life and often adults are not prepared to do a good job at this.
So, as one becomes an adult one first must learn to make friends with themselves. If you are not a friend to yourself you really won't be successful at being a friend to others.
It all starts with Compassion for yourself and the integrity that comes from compasssion for yourself and all other beings in the universe.
There really is no way to separate from the rest of life in the universe anyway.
In some ways we are all one living being. This is my experience.
So, in some ways compassion for yourself is compassion for all beings and compassion for all beings is also compassion for yourself.
This is what I have found on my personal path to Enlightenment.
By God's Grace
PS I just realized many people don't understand the word Compassion.
The best way to think about Compassion as a word is to realize it means Kindness.
So, being kind to yourself will help keep you alive
By God's Grace
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