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Marsanne Reid's avatar

This is beautiful, logical, and to me, obviously true. But I feel concern for the people who lack even selfish self love. How can they begin?

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D.A. Nicholls's avatar

Great insight, and I’m surprised it reads as new to me! Thank you. That last stage is such a deep one.

For your point about where love of others fits in, I wonder if it comes more at the penultimate stage or after the last, or is mixed in with the negotiation with self love. Here’s the saint on love of others, courtesy of an Instagram account (Totus Tuus Apostolate):

“It is not possible to love your neighbor unless you love God. If you love God first, then you can love your neighbor in God… If we really love God, we will love what belongs to God. We will love in the same manner as we have been loved. We care about others even as Christ cared. we love the Lord not because he has been good to us, but because the Lord is good.”

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