Self-Love: The Only Path to True Sovereignty

Being a human is the most challenging journey any conscious being could ever undertake. Were it possible to travel to all the galaxies of this universe and study all the intelligent life forms it contains, we would not find a single creature who faces a journey of existence more challenging than our own. No human can bypass this predicament. Deferring, ignoring or evading it only complicates our task in the long run. But there is one thing that we can do to simplify the journey immeasurably—we can commit to the practice of self-love. Typically, we tend to land on self-love only as a last resort, when everything else has failed, when we have truly hit bottom, when our yearning to be rescued by others has led to despair again and again and again. In this meetup, we will consider the possibility of stepping into self-love right now. We will stare straight into the paradox of our human predicament and in doing so we will glimpse the true sovereignty that awaits us in the practice of self-love.