LOVE yourself... (1st step)

"You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with."
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Wayne Dyer

Pema Chodron said, "Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know."  (...) “The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently.”
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Pema Chodron