If one haschance to study the effect of a mother with genuine self-love,
one can see that there is nothing more conducive to giving achild the experience of what love, joy and happiness are thanbeing loved by a mother who loves herself.
These ideas on self-love cannot be summarized betterthan by quoting Meister Eckhart on this topic: "If you loveyourself, you love everybody else as you do yourself. As longas you love another person less than you love yourself, you willnot really succeed in loving yourself, but if you love all alike,
including yourself, you will love them as one person and thatperson is both God and man. Thus he is a great and righteousperson who, loving himself, loves all others equally."15 - P58