June 18, 2012

Self-love

Quoting from Bo Sanchez's blog (http://bosanchez.ph)



"The difference is simple.  “Selfishness” is meeting your own needs and your own needs only. “Self-love” is meeting your needs so that you can meet the needs of others even more.


Within you is a Love Tank.  And your Love Tank has a faucet.  The only way for love to flow out of that faucet is if your Love Tank is full.  If you don’t receive love, you won’t be able to give love.  You can’t give what you don’t have.  You can’t love anyone if you don’t love yourself.  You can’t even love God if you don’t love yourself.


Even Jesus honored his needs.  The Bible says that when crowds of people came to him for healing, he honored his need to be alone.  But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed. (Luke 5:15–16)


I know people who don’t even know their needs anymore.  They are so overwhelmed by the needs of other people, they don’t have time to listen to their own needs.


Why? 


Early on, they were brainwashed that their needs weren’t important.  Correction: They were brainwashed that THEY were not important.


People with Toxic Shame feel they don’t deserve to meet their needs, whatever needs they have."



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