From the book:
“If you respect yourself, you treat yourself kindly and go and develop full responsible and deeply respectful relationship with yourself, you will in time start falling in love with yourself. Loving yourself, everything about yourself, is the key to any other loving relationship. Loving yourself is the thing you are trying to find in others.
To achieve loving feelings for yourself can be only done by you, not by anybody else. Not even your mother can give you that kind of love. When she reaches the state of unconditional love, she will give you blessings and set you free. That’s her love, beside acceptance.
But full love for yourself, can come only from you. And this is the way it should be. You shouldn’t fall in love with your lover, but with yourself first.”