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Awareness(7):

Love yourself,

Don't condemn yourself. You have been condemned so much, and you have accepted all that condemnation. Now you go on doing harm to yourself. Nobody thinks himself worthy enough, nobody thinks himself a beautiful creation of god. Nobody thinks that he is needed at all. These are poisonous ideas, but you have been poisoned.

Humanity has lived under a dark, dark cloud of self- condemnation. If you condemn yourself, how can you grow?

How can you ever become mature? And if you condemn yourself, How can you worship existence? If you can not worship existence within you, you will become incapable worshiping existence in others. It will be impossible. You can become part of the whole only if you have great respect for the God that resides within you. you are a host, God is your guest. By loving yourself you will know this: That God has chosen you to be a vehicle. In choosing you to be a vehicle he has already respected you, loved you. In creating you he has shown his love for you. He has not made you accidentally. He has made you with certain destiny, with a certain potential with a certain glory that you have to attain.