You! Love! Yourself!

You! Love! Yourself!

In terms of what is other

In terms of what is other

You! Love! Yourself!

In terms of what is other

In terms of what is other

Now when you go deeply into the nature of selfishness

What do you discover?

You say I love myself, I seek my own advantage

Now what is the self that I love?

What do I want?

And that becomes an increasingly ever deepening puzzle

Now I've often referred to this when you say to somebody else

I love you, it's always rather disconcerting to

The person to whom you say that

If you imply that you love them with a

Pure disinterested and holy love

They automatically suspect it as being a little bit phony

But if you say "I love you so much I could eat you"

That's an expression, it's a way of saying to a

Person you attract me so much that I can't help it

I'm absolutely bowled over by you

I'm gone

And people like that

Then they feel they're really being loved

That it's absolutely genuine

But now, I love you so much I could eat you

Now what the devil do I want?

I certainly don't want to eat the girl in the

Sense of literally devouring her

Because then she'd disappear

Hmmmm

But I love myself

And what is me, in what way do I know me?

When it suddenly occurs to me that I know me only in terms of you

See when I think of anything that I know and I like

Then it's always something that can be viewed as other than me

I can never get to look at me, real me

It's always behind, it's always hidden

And I really don't know it well enough

To know whether I love it or not

Maybe I don't, maybe it's an appalling mess

But certainly the things I do love, and that

I want from a selfish point of view

When I really think about them they're all something else

That's in a way outside me

You! Love! Yourself!

In terms of what is other

In terms of what is other

You! Love! Yourself!

In terms of what is other

In terms of what is other

Now, we saw that there is a reciprocity

A total mutual interdependence between what

We call the self and what we call the other

That's the warp and the woof

And so if you're perfectly honest about loving yourself

And you don't pull any punches, you don't pretend that

You're anything other than exactly what you are

You suddenly come to discover that the

Self you love if you really go into it

Is the universe

You suddenly come to discover that the

Self you love if you really go into it

Is the universe

You don't like all of it

You're selective about it as we saw in the beginning

Perception is selection

But on the whole

You! Love! Yourself!

In terms of what is other

In terms of what is other

You! Love! Yourself!

In terms of what is other

In terms of what is other

You! Love! Yourself!

In terms of what is other

In terms of what is other

You! Love! Yourself!

In terms of what is other

In terms of what is other

Because it's only in terms of what is other

That you have a self at all