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The Truth About Self-Love:





                                    True Love Knows No Self







































        Quite possibly, what can seem even                     core conflict of our life story is the main

        more difficult than making peace with                  problem keeping us from happiness, so
        others is the prospect of making peace                 we live as though resolving that core

        with ourselves. We are burdened with                   conflict is our life’s purpose.
        what we have done or not done. And
        more deeply, many of us are burdened                   Underneath many of the recurring

        with an identity where we believe we are  themes or patterns in our life stories is
        “wrong” or unlovable. So, it’s not just “I             an unconscious assumption: If we want

        have done something wrong,” but “I am                  to create the life of our dreams, then we
        wrong.” That identity can be so deeply                 need to resolve what we believe is our
        entrenched that we’re not even aware that  core conflict, and to do that we need to

        it’s present. This is what makes it seem               be self-critical. “If I can just overcome
        so hard to make peace with ourselves                   what’s wrong, if I can just fix certain

        for things we have done. Part of the                   things about myself, then I can change”
        challenge in making peace with ourselves  (be happy, be loved, be successful). The
        is a belief that our goal in life is to resolve  assumption that the key to happiness is

        our central conflict. We live as if the                to fix things reveals another assumption:


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