how can you know how you would like to be treated, if you do not love yourself?
the golden rule, upon examination, appears to first require self love, to be applicable.
if you are living your life always attempting to please other people, how can you know how you want to be treated? does it mean you want others to put aside their own callings, and honor what they imagine yours to be instead? yet it appears that your preference is to sacrifice the 'inner yes' for what you imagine someone else's inner yes to be...
is this anything other than a thought-induced loop of pain and suffering?
imagine putting aside this altruistic delusion for a moment and instead of giving attention to the program and conditioning of thought telling you to sacrifice yourself, just feel for the 'yes' of your present moment.
go to the mirror and look at that face no one else will ever see the way you do and tell it you love it without conditions.
listen. feel where the 'yes' and the 'no' of life is moving.
can you feel this movement for another? if not, how can you possibly know how they wish to be treated?
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