Happiness - Learning to Love Yourself

An episode of the Children Meditate - Meditation Classes podcast, hosted by sunirmalya symons, titled "Happiness - Learning to Love Yourself" was published on November 15, 2006 and runs 10 minutes.

November 15, 2006 ·10m · Children Meditate - Meditation Classes

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Summary

Have you ever heard people say you should love your self? Do you remember how important love is? It is the source of all happiness in your life and the happiness in our world. So to love your self sounds like a good place to start doesn't it? Well yes, but that doesn't mean you immediately start going on about how great you are, or to think about how you beat someone else at sport or some video game. It certainly doesn't mean you should spend all day in front of the mirror looking at how beautiful you are. The highest love brings the highest and most lasting happiness, whereas lower love brings a temporary pleasure. You know how sometimes you feel that you love eating pizza or lots of ice cream. Then you eat it but you eat too much and you feel sick, well that is a bit like a lower love. With a lower love you feel happy for a short time, then it goes away. The highest love is much more powerful, in a second, it might completely change your life and make you happier for ever.

Episode Description

Have you ever heard people say you should love your self? Do you remember how important love is?

It is the source of all happiness in your life and the happiness in our world. So to love your self sounds like a good place to start doesn't it?

Well yes, but that doesn't mean you immediately start going on about how great you are, or to think about how you beat someone else at sport or some video game. It certainly doesn't mean you should spend all day in front of the mirror looking at how beautiful you are.

The highest love brings the highest and most lasting happiness, whereas lower love brings a temporary pleasure. You know how sometimes you feel that you love eating pizza or lots of ice cream. Then you eat it but you eat too much and you feel sick, well that is a bit like a lower love. With a lower love you feel happy for a short time, then it goes away. The highest love is much more powerful, in a second, it might completely change your life and make you happier for ever.