03/04/2026
I highly recommend you to watch this video !
Do you ever feel like you give too much… or expect too much… or simply don’t understand why some relationships drain you while others lift you up? In this video, I break down a timeless insight that can bring more balance, honesty, and emotional ease into every connection in your life. It’s simple, practical, and deeply grounding — and it might shift the way you see yourself and others. Watch if you’re ready for healthier relationships and more inner peace.
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Religious background to the article (put in video description, use for article later):
As I recently wrote on my Instagram: You will not become more spiritual by fully rejecting religion. Ancient texts written thousands of years ago hold timeless wisdom for all, so let’s also take a look at some antient roots of this ideas mentioned in Old and New Testaments:
Torah / Old Testament
Leviticus 19:18: "Love your neighbor as yourself"
(ויקרא י"ט י"ח) אהבת לרעך כמוך
Левит 19:18: "Возлюби ближнего твоего как самого себя"
Also, this is an important point: ancient texts from two thousand years ago — and even earlier — teach us that loving ourselves is normal and expected. We can even see that God \ Higher Powers expects that we love ourself as something obvious. But self-love should not be narcissistic and solely self-obsessed.
We will talk in other articles about social disconnect many of us are having in recent years, but here I want to mention that we are meant to love ourselves in a way that we are also are willing and are able to love others.
When God/ Universe, wants to guide people toward being well‑intentioned, refraining from unnecessary cruelty or indifference, and showing more kindness and warmth toward others, the words chosen are: Love others as you love yourself.
These teachings also illustrate something modern sociology and psychology only recognized much later: people who act with cruelty, rudeness, or hate, are often people who do not love themselves. They struggle deeply with self‑acceptance and self‑worth and happiness.
In Hinduism texts we can find words of wisdom that say:
“He who sees all beings in the Self, and the Self in all beings, feels no hatred.” (Isha Upanishad)
We give to the world what we carry inside. We treat others the way we treat ourselves. For example, people who feel insecure often try to diminish or humiliate others.
In New Testament Romans 13:9–10: Paul writes that all other commandments are "summed up in this one command: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'"
Later this principle was also mentioned in Perkei Avot (Chapters of the Fathers," commonly translated as "Ethics of Our Fathers" - a central, text of Rabbinic Judaism which is not part of the Torah (Old Testament). It is a compilation of ethical teachings, wisdom and philosophical discussions focused on character development, interpersonal relationships, and moral conduct.
על תעשה לחברך משנאי אלך - Do not do to your friend what you don’t want to be done to you
We can see similar examples in teaching of Budhims and Hinduism
In Hinduism:
“One should never do to another what one regards as harmful to oneself.” (Mahabharata 13.113.8)
In Buddhism, the Dhammapada, one of the most important Buddhist texts, expresses a related teaching:
“Consider others as yourself.” (Dhammapada 130)
Across all these traditions, the message is the same: when we understand, respect, and love ourselves, we become capable of treating others with fairness, compassion, and kindness and develop more realistic expectations towards ourselves and others. Healthy relationships and communities begin with the awareness and care we cultivate within ourselves.
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