“”Love your neighbor as yourself.” Turn this around and say, “Love
yourself as you love your neighbor,” for often you will recognize the
goodness in another and ignore it in yourself. Some people believe there
is a great merit and holy virtue in what they think of as humility.
Therefore to be proud of oneself seems a sin, and in that frame of
reference true affirmation of the self is impossible. Genuine self pride
is the loving recognition of your own integrity and value. True
humility is based upon this affectionate regard for yourself, plus the
recognition that you live in a universe in which all other beings also
possess this undeniable individuality and self worth. False humility tells you that you are nothing. It often hides a
distorted, puffed up, denied self pride, because no man or woman can
really accept a theory that denies personal self worth.”
-- from "The Nature of Personal Reality"
The Voice of Seth, as channeled by Jane Roberts (1994)
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