The Sacred Imperative of Self-Love

To reach that place is not indulgence. It is liberation.
It requires dismantling the inherited architecture of shame: conditioning, dogma, tradition, and belief systems that taught us to earn love rather than embody it.

Without this radical self-acceptance, we cannot live authentically. We cannot step into the fullness of our divine design. We remain fractured, performing instead of becoming.

Even Jesus, in his wisdom, said: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
He didn’t say instead of yourself.
He knew that self-love is the baseline. The measure. The mirror.

And here’s the deeper truth:
You cannot truly receive God’s love if you cannot love yourself.
Because they are not separate.
They are two sides of the same coin.
To reject one is to resist the other.

So the journey inward—toward unconditional love of self—is not selfish.
It is sacred.
It is the beginning of everything.