It’s also key to having freedom to accept others exactly as they are. The most important person that you can love is yourself. Have you ever seen someone who gives up their entire lives to help others, yet destroy their own health and welfare in process? Everything is connected and One, which means that anything that you can see, feel or imagine is a part of you also, with all balances apply.

For instance, a person who only takes care of himself, with no regard for others, is no less imbalanced than someone who devotes his entire life to care for others at expense of himself. The key here, once again, is word NEED. It’s all about motivation that drives them. Some of those so intent on ‘self-sacrifice’ are driven by ‘need’. They need to help others to make up for their own inadequacies, or to make up for bad things they feel that they’ve done, or whatever other reasons drive them. Yet if they truly accepted themselves then would they feel need to ‘sacrifice’ themselves in order to help others? Wouldn’t they see helping others as an extension of helping themselves, rather than as a way to make themselves feel better about who they are? A balanced person sees helping others as a normal, compassionate thing to do, rather than as something to do to make up for their own lack in some area. It’s Law of Reciprocity again, by helping others we help ourselves, by encouraging others to grow we also grow in process. By accepting ourselves exactly as we are, we can also accept others exactly as they are, and that’s beginning of unity.