Learn to Love Yourself || Acharya Prashant
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00:00 Most of us do not love ourselves.
00:02 In fact, if you look at the way we behave and take decisions,
00:05 you will find that in a hidden way we hate ourselves.
00:08 We are anti-life.
00:09 We do things, don't we, that harm us?
00:12 Somebody keeps on smoking.
00:13 He knows smoking is bad, still he keeps on smoking.
00:15 Somebody knows he must work hard and study or something.
00:18 He does not do that.
00:19 What is it?
00:20 Somebody continues to beer in an abusive relationship and never drops out.
00:26 Why do we do that?
00:27 We keep on eating all kinds of unhealthy stuff.
00:30 Why do we do that?
00:30 Why are all these things indicators of self-love?
00:34 No, they are indicators of self-hate.
00:36 Why do we hate ourselves?
00:38 Because we have refused our highest possibility to ourselves.
00:43 Whenever you will do that, you will hate yourself your entire life.
00:46 Whenever you will refuse the highest to yourself,
00:50 you will become guilty in your own eyes and you will not be able to forgive yourself for that.
00:55 And how can you love someone who can't even be pardoned?