As I look at chapter 45 of the Tao Te Ching, it talks about the opposites. I heard Eckhardt Tolle say one time that if one thing is true very often the opposite is also very true. This chapter in the Tao Te Ching starts with “True perfection seems imperfect, yet it is perfectly itself. Truthfulness seems empty, yet it is fully present, True straightness seems crooked. True wisdom seems foolish. True art seems artless.”
This reminds me about the term selfish. My addition to this perfect Wisdom is “True selflessness seems selfish”. To give yourself the love and priority over everything and everyone appears to be selfish in our culture. How do we learn to give ourselves self-love? Self-love seems selfish. When we make ourselves a priority we can then love others the way we should be loved. Don’t we love ourselves enough to give ourselves what we want? We must break the cultural chains of bondage that tell us not to be selfish which is loving ourselves first. I love what Abraham Hicks says .. It’s funny how when others tell us that we’re selfish they’re telling us that we should do it their way. Isn’t that truly selfish? We should do things the way we want to do them first. Love ourselves first then give to
others once our needs are met. Remember, loving your neighbor as yourself is first loving yourself so that you can then love your neighbor. We’ve seen too many times people approach the 90-day mark in a job and they seemed great until shortly after when their true personality came out and they were unbearable.
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