When you learn how to truly love yourself, you learn how to love others.
Because in the same way you judge yourself, you judge others.
Love is the unification of identity. The opposite of Love is when the “whole” fractures into multiple identities and attacks itself.
The highest level of intelligence is that which sees the limitation of your own finite mind and the limitation of the finite minds of others.
It is beyond the mind, completely impartial, and universal.
And it is inseparable from Love.
Searching for the approval of others is actually searching for the approval of yourself
But your mind is bound by the evaluative criteria of worth created by others.
intelligence is putting everything in your life in order
which is putting everything in its 'right place’
which is what art is.
to be intelligent is to practice the art of living
when everything in your life is in order, there is no inner conflict, therefore no outer conflict
The art of living is to have zero forms of perceived authority outside of yourself.
Sure, certain people have authority over specific domains (a business, organization, etc)
But they do not have authority over your life.
One cannot love if there is any form of authority
the movement of thought is ignorance.
Judgment always comes from ignorance.
Whenever your mind judges itself, it is the movement of thought projecting its perception to an ignorant perspective.
Ignorant of all your experienced context.
this is the mind dividing itself