“Nobody loves me!” It is a big one we tell ourselves. “Nobody loves me!” Is that true or not? I think people love us. Our friends love us. Our pets love us. Sometimes we get into a mental state where we cannot see how much other people loved us, but they still love us. And we begin to see that our holding on to this idea of “nobody loves me” prevents us from accepting other people’s love. Other people are there and they love us and they want to show us their love, their care and affection, but I am kind of scared or I feel vulnerable. I do not want to let them in. So, I tell myself I am unlovable and they must be stupid for caring about me. When I look at that and ask myself, “Is that true? Is that true? Really? Nobody loves me?” I mean everybody has people who love them. Everybody does. I mean even Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Mao Tse-Tung; and we have not done anything as bad as what they did. And yet people loved them. People do care about us. It is important to realise that.

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