Self-Love is the Key

"You yourself, as much as anyone else in the entire universe deserve to feel your love and affection" -Buddha

You deserve to feel good. Yes, you.

Do you know that?

Right now as you are, without changing a single thing you deserve to feel the kind of absurd happiness usually only seen in musicals.

I know you’ve fucked up. Your entire family wants nothing to do with you, you drink too much, you’re still smoking, no matter what you do you can’t seem to shift the weight.

You still deserve to feel good. Yes, you.

I know it’s hard. I know the world is burning, bombs are being dropped, there are babies without  mothers and men in board rooms making obscenely greedy decisions that are rapidly destroying our home.

I know we’re still being programmed to believe all that’s really important is the way we look and what’s in our piggy bank. When we all know it’s not, when we all know all that’s important is love.
Can you feel it rising? The 60s did, now it’s coming back, this time for good. Because the entire planet is in need of healing, the Earth and all her creatures. It’s not looking like some airy-fairy hippy shit anymore, it’s looking increasingly like how we move away from this pathological desire to destroy ourselves. And it begins with each of us on an individual level, with deep unconditional self love.

Love is the way – and you are love, so feel yourself. Asking what can you do? What can we do to avert crisis? Love yourself. Love yourself so entirely they can’t sell you shiny plastic shit anymore to convince you you aren’t enough. They can’t sell you endless things you don’t need that ultimately ends up choking our planet, clogging the skies, poisoning the water creatures, and killing ourselves. When you love yourself you don’t destroy yourself, you don’t destroy your home. You protect yourself, you protect your home and your family, which is everyone else on the planet. You don’t let them degrade and reduce you to a role, the role of consumer. You are not a consumer. You are a human being capable of astonishing acts of change. You are not ‘one of the masses,’ you are a completely unique work of art  - an artist capable of making music, painting beauty, cooking masterpieces and turning everything around. But this is going to take every single one of us, coming together as One. Which we are. Powerful in love, and truth.

So yeah. No matter what, you deserve to feel good, you deserve to feel the love that’s in your heart. In fact, it’s vital that you do. Because when you do, the madness will end.

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