Illusions of self-love and self-improvement

If you drop a stone into a pool of water, where does the splash come from?

Does the splash come from the water? The stone? Or is the splash only in your mind? The correct answer of course is that it’s only in your mind, because the splash is something you perceive from your senses as a result of the event of the stone dropping into water. The sight and sound of the splash is relationship, and comes from you being relative to both the stone and the water, which of course are relative to each other as well.

Relationship, any relationship at all, is environment. Environment is many different things coming together in different relationships. All existence is change. All existence it relationship. This means that fundamentally everything is environment, because existence without being in a relationship with everything else simply isn’t possible.

So if you try to love yourself, what are you trying to achieve? What does it mean to actually love yourself? What are you actually trying to say here? If you understand that love implies a relationship, then what is it exactly that you love?

So let’s unpack this further and dig a little deeper here.

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