Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It

"This day, I vow to myself to love myself, to treat myself as someone I love truly and deeply - in my thoughts, my actions, the choices I make, the experiences I have, each moment I am conscious, I make the decision I LOVE MYSELF." (Location 123)

And here's the interesting part.  When we love ourselves, we naturally shine, we are naturally beautiful.  And that draws others to us.  Before we know it, they're loving us and it's up to us to choose (Location 322)

who to share our love with. (Location 324)

Beautiful irony.  Fall in love with yourself.  Let your love express itself and the world will beat a path to your door to fall in love with you. (Location 325)

Fighting fear doesn't work.  It just drags us in closer.  One has to focus on what is real.  On the truth.  When in darkness, don't fight it.  You can't win.  Just find the nearest switch, turn on the light. (Location 439)

James Altucher, in one of his best blog posts, talks about how he stops negative thoughts in their tracks with a simple mind trick.  "Not useful," he tells himself.  It's a switch, a breaker of sorts, shifts the pattern of the fear. (Location 442)

So I ask myself the question, "if I loved myself, truly and deeply, what would I do?" (Location 477)

This I know: the mind, left to itself, repeats the same stories, the same loops.  Mostly ones that don't serve us.  So what's practical, what's transformative, is to consciously choose a thought.  Then practice it (Location 502)

again and again.  With emotion, with feeling, with acceptance. (Location 504)

The goal, if there is one, is to practice until the thought you chose becomes the primary loop.  Until it becomes the filter through which you view life.  Then (Location 508)

practice some more. (Location 510)

The key, at least for me, has been to let go.  Let go of the ego, let go of attachments, let go of who I think I should be, who others think I should be.  And as I do that, the real me emerges, far far better than the Kamal I projected to the world.  There is a strength in this vulnerability that cannot be described, only experienced. (Location 524)

Key is being open to loving ourselves.  Once we do that, life casually takes care of the next steps. (Location 532)

Often, the price for not being present is pain. (Location 546)

But I can't erase the past, only learn from it.  It's ok.  Applying what I know makes the present and the future a beautiful place to be. (Location 555)

What we believe, that's what we seek, it's the filter we view our lives through.  I've actively thrown myself at intense and difficult situations.  All situations where I grew, but at what price? (Location 572)