Is loving yourself selfish?  Is being selfless loving?

It could be.  Thinking in black and white is the trouble here.  Why does it have to be either give it all away or keep it all for yourself?  It’s not balanced.  

I think it would be selfish thinking that if you gave it all away as a gift and then you were completely depleted, you’d expect to be paid back.  

This life is a gift.  If you believe in God and believe you were made in his image and God is love.  He’s source of it.  The source.  

We are the source too.  In his image.  

If you give away all the love to everyone just know they already have access to the love just like you.  

Love doesn’t look for it’s own interests.  How could it?  It’s a feeling inside of you.  Looking for love outside of yourself is useless.  Love is already inside of us.  

I believe the translation used to say selfish.  I believe it is selfish to already have love inside of us that we’re not working on generating more of and expecting someone else to give it to us.  

Acts of love is a whole other thing.  Showing your love in an outward tangible way feels good.  It just does.  But, giving soooo much thinking that if you just give more then you’ll feel the feeling of love.  That is selfish and almost entitled expecting love in return.  It’s just not possible.  Love is a feeling inside of you.  

How do you want to think about the feeling love?  

❤️ I like to think I am the source of love for me.  

❤️I have enough love inside of me that I can do loving things for others  AND myself.  

❤️Love is a feeling.  

❤️I can feel more love when I think loving thoughts.  

❤️Nothing outside of me can make me feel more or less love, but my thoughts about it can.