“There are millions of ways to express your happiness, but there is only one way to really be happy, and that is to love.
There is no other way. You cannot be happy if you don’t love yourself. That is a fact.
If you don’t love yourself, you don’t have any opportunity to be happy. You cannot share what you do not have.
If you don’t love yourself, you cannot love anyone else either. But you may have a need for love, and if there is someone who needs you — that is what people call love.
That is not love. That is possession, that is selfishness, that is control, and there is no respect. Don’t lie to yourself. That is not love.
The love coming out of you is the only way to be happy. Unconditional love for yourself.”
— Don Miguel Ruiz, The Mastery of Love
If this is the message that the “Lessons of Love” have for you today, there is no need for further explanation—it is time to stop thinking about what to do regarding the other person and instead focus on how to care for yourself so that you feel well.
It is time to truly feel that you yourself are the most important thing you have. In fact, the only thing you truly have.
