Love that comes with attachment, craving and expectation will only bring pain to oneself and those whom one thinks one loves very much, but not really.
Love that is free from attachment, craving and expectation will bring peace to oneself, regardless of whether others love oneself, or not.
Only those who know how to love oneself selflessly, know how to love others selflessly.
Only those who are free from attachment, craving and expectation towards oneself, know how to love others without attachment, craving and expectation.
Those who love oneself and others selflessly don't need to receive love, acceptance, acknowledgement, appreciation and companionship from others to feel good and meaningful about oneself and everything. They don't need others to love them for them to love others.
They love themselves and others as they are.
Those who don't know how to love oneself will try to do many things in order to please others, with craving and expectation towards giving and receiving love, acceptance, acknowledgement, appreciation and companionship to and from others, in order to feel good and meaningful about oneself and everything. But then one will feel bad and meaningless about oneself and everything when all these names and forms are absent.
Those who know how to love oneself and others selflessly maybe doing many things for oneself and others, but it's not about pleasing oneself and others, so that oneself and others will feel good and meaningful through giving and receiving love, acceptance, acknowledgement, appreciation and companionship among one another.
This is the yoga practice, to realize selfless loving kindness beyond chemistry influenced conditional passionate sensual feelings of love.
Those who know this, are free.
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