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Here is the stand alone version of the love letter, sans commentary:
Copyright, Joy Guru 2008

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Do you love yourself?

The quality of love around you reflects the quality of your self love.

You may think that putting up defenses will protect you from the disappointment of unmet expectations.

However, what you really need is to learn to love without expectation.

Loving yourself is the only way to love without expectation.

At the center of everything and everyone is love;

If you truly love yourself without condition, you will always have what you need.

Your outer world will reflect the inner.

If you feel alone or sad or empty, don’t look outside yourself for love.

Look within and affirm yourself.

It is here you will find your center and the core of love.

When you send out love in the hope of receiving love in return, this is codependency.

A codependent thinks that love can only come from the outside, and doesn’t know how to love herself.

Love yourself first.

True love overflows from a place of self love, which is a love that has no expectation for anything in return.

We are conditioned to believe that there is one mate in the world that will provide us with a continual supply of the vital love we need to survive.

What we don’t learn is that this vital love first needs to come from within, and the overflow can be shared with another in a joint blissful self expression.

What you see in healthy relationships isn’t the total fulfillment of needs by the other, but a shared love of self and the pure joy of shared self expression.

You have nothing more to do than to love yourself.

Is life not going your way? Then look inside and see what it is about yourself that you don’t love.

There you will find the source of your dissatisfaction with the outside world.

Love yourself, and when you overflow, share that authentic expression of who you really are with another.

Because who you are is love,

and in loving yourself, you become whole again.

Namaste.

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