When I started to love myself ...

Charlie Chaplin wrote these wonderful and true words on his 70th birthday. He was a philosopher and a highly spiritual person. His words are timeless and important for everyone at a certain point in time. If you now read these lines from Charlie Chaplin and can see something from it, then - like many before - he has helped you a little step on your way. And I am grateful that many years ago I was able to discover these words for myself ...

When I started to love myself ...

... I understood that I am always in the right place at the right time and that everything that happens is right at the right time - from then on I could be calm. Today I know: This is called self-aware.

When I started to love myself, I realized that soul pain and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I live contrary to my own truth. Today I know that is authentic.

When I started to love myself, I understood how much it can affect someone if I try to impose my wishes on this person, even if I actually know that the time is not right and this person is not ready - and that also applies if this person is myself. Today I call the respect.

When I started to love myself, I stopped longing for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounds me invites me to grow. Today I call this mature.

When I started to love myself, I understood that I was always in the right place at the right time and everything happens at the right time. I could be calm from there. Today I call this self-confidence.

When I started to love myself, I left it to steal my own time and I stopped designing big future projects. Today I only do what I enjoy and make me happy, things that I like to do and make my heart laugh - and I do it in my own way and at my own pace. Today I call the honesty.

When I started to love myself, I freed myself from everything that is not healthy for me - food, people, things, situations - and from everything that pulls me down and pulls me away from me. First I called this attitude a healthy selfishness. Today I know that is self-love.

When I started to love myself, I left it to always want to be right, and since then I have been wrong. Today I discovered that is moderate and true humility.

When I started to love myself, I refused to continue to live in the past and to worry about the future. Now I only live for this moment when everything takes place and I call it fulfillment.

When I started to love myself, I realized that my thinking can disturb me, make poor and sick. But when I connected it to my heart, my mind became a valuable ally. I call this connection today.

We no longer need to fear arguments, confrontations or with any kind of problems with ourselves or with others. Even stars collapse and new worlds are born from their collision.

Today I know that is life.