You can’t love anyone or anything until you love your own existence, first. Love can only grow out of a respect for your own life. When you love yourself, your own existence, then you love someone who can enhance your existence, share it with you, and make it more pleasurable. When you hate yourself and believe your existence is evil, then you can only hate, you can only experience the shell of love, the longing for something good, but you have nothing to base it in but hatred. You taint the very concept of love… with your corrupted longing for it…
To truly love someone… you must revel in their existence because they make life all the more wonderful. If you think existence is corrupt, then you are sealed off from the fruition of such a relationship, from what love really is.
~ Jennsen Rahl, Pillars of Creation by Terry Goodkind
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