Happy Valentine's Day! Celebrate Self Love First and Foremost!

[LightBeam]

With this message I wanted to reiterate again the importance of UNCONDITIONAL Self Love. Without is you can not give 100% love to others, care for others, help others. And you cant receive others' love towards you either because they are reflections of your beliefs about who you are.

If you have any doubts about your worth, about your deservance, qualities, etc, dig deep to find out what is the source of these beliefs. Know that beliefs are not facts and they can be changed at any time in any way by changing your perspective and gaining knowledge of who you truly are. 

Celebrate your existence today with enhanced gratitude! And know that creation does not make mistakes when creating. You exist, therefore All That Is needs you to be complete. That alone should give you a hint about your worth. You are priceless!

[Tak]

Happy day to everyone too!
True and amazing words, LB, how important it is to remember this every day. We have been taught to always seek external validation, that to feel love, others must love us first, and that is not the case, it is the other way around.
And we must love ourselves with ALL our flaws and shadows. How liberating that is, not judging ourselves... that does not mean not improving to grow, but absolute acceptance, that is true unconditional love.

[tides2dust]

Happy Belated Valentines day. Incase you thought Valentines day was a corporate holiday, allow me to share an origin story with you...

Saint Valentine's Story
https://www.learnreligions.com/st-valentine-patron-saint-of-love-124544



Biography

Saint Valentine was a Catholic priest who had also worked as a doctor. He lived in Italy during the third century AD and served as a priest in Rome.

Historians don't know much about Valentine's early life. They pick up Valentine's story after he began working as a priest. Valentine became famous for marrying couples who were in love but couldn't get legally married in Rome during the reign of Emperor Claudius II, who outlawed weddings. Claudius wanted to recruit lots of men to be soldiers in his army and thought that marriage would be an obstacle to recruiting new soldiers. He also wanted to prevent his existing soldiers from getting married because he thought that marriage would distract them from their work.

When Emperor Claudius discovered that Valentine was performing weddings, he sent Valentine to jail. Valentine used his time in jail to continue to reach out to people with the love that he said Jesus Christ gave him for others.

He befriended his jailer, Asterious, who became so impressed with Valentine's wisdom that he asked Valentine to help his daughter, Julia, with her lessons. Julia was blind and needed someone to read material for her to learn it. Valentine became friends with Julia through his work with her when she came to visit him in jail.

Emperor Claudius also came to like Valentine. He offered to pardon Valentine and set him free if Valentine would renounce his Christian faith and agree to worship the Roman gods. Not only did Valentine refuse to leave his faith, he also encouraged Emperor Claudius to place his trust in Christ. Valentine's faithful choices cost him his life. Emperor Claudius was so enraged at Valentine's response that he sentenced Valentine to die.

The First Valentine

Before he was killed, Valentine wrote a last note to encourage Julia to stay close to Jesus and to thank her for being his friend. He signed the note: "From your Valentine." That note inspired people to begin writing their own loving messages to people on Valentine's Feast Day, February 14th, which is celebrated on the same day on which Valentine was martyred.

Valentine was beaten, stoned, and beheaded on February 14, 270. People who remembered his loving service to many young couples began celebrating his life, and he came to be regarded as a saint through whom God had worked to help people in miraculous ways. By 496, Pope Gelasius designated February 14th as Valentine's official feast day.

Famous Miracles of Saint Valentine

The most famous miracle attributed to Saint Valentine involved the farewell note that he sent to Julia. Believers say that God miraculously cured Julia of her blindness so that she could personally read Valentine's note, rather than just have someone else read it to her.

Throughout the years since Valentine died, people have prayed for him to intercede for them before God about their romantic lives. Numerous couples have reported experiencing miraculous improvements in their relationships with boyfriends, girlfriends, and spouses after praying for help from Saint Valentine.

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[Erik]

Love these wise words and the story of Saint Valentine, except for his fate.
What really was an eyeopener in accepting 100% for who I am was Carl Jung and the Shadow theory.
I guess it will take a lifetime to do shadow work.