The “self” that we had to love was not our ego, not the everyday person who went around behaving thoughtlessly, selfishly, sometimes unkindly, but the flame of pure spirit that is in each and every one of us, that is part of the Creator; what the Buddhists call Kernal. That which is loved, I realized, can grow. We had to learn to understand and love this Spirit within in order to find peace within.
