6 tweets · January 2024 · 34 likes · 4 retweets · read on Twitter
self-hatred is not possible. it's literally a contradiction. hatred requires two different entities, so is not properly self-referential (which is not to say some experience you're calling "self-hatred" isn't real—but labelling two different parts "me" doesn't make them the…
...same.) good question @eshear! depends on what we mean, but the view I'm speaking from is that love is an experience of understanding and non-separateness, thus self-love is inevitable when you see clearly—it permeates everything, under the confusion
I've gone and looked and found this self-love-permeates-everything thing is self-evidently true—something that any person could tell for themselves! (and in fact, not just "any person" but any sufficiently self-aware part of a person as well) malcolmocean.com/2023/11/i-can-…
and this recognition is the basis of my philosophy, my metaphysics, my approach to life, my way of being an agent of love in the universe
of course, you might have stuff to say where you want to use the phrase "self-love" and "self-hate" differently, and I totally respect that. (there are perhaps other phrases I'll fight to keep precisely tracking their True Nature, but not these)
in essence, what I'm saying here about self-hate & self-love is a koan or something maybe it resonates with something deep in you and you get the joke, maybe not. possible you'll recognize it in some months/years. I can kinda explain it but only kinda