Episode Details

How can I say I love you to somebody I have never met? Because your suffering is the same as my suffering, and once you see that there is nothing else to say.

Your hopes and your dreams are mine with the details swapped. If you want to understand my suffering, look at your own. That is what loving yourself actually means, because once you accept that suffering is part of you, you stop needing other people to be different. Some have built walls out of fear, and it is harder to see in them. It is still there.

One thing to try: Look at one person who irritates you and find the bit of their suffering you recognise.

In this episode

• (0:05) How can I look up and say I love you?
• (2:37) Your suffering is the same as mine
• (5:04) Want to understand my suffering? Look at your own
• (8:02) This is what learning to love yourself means
• (10:09) You have probably been where they are, differently
• (12:09) The walls people build out of fear

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