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How do you LOVE yourself without EGO?

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Rabbi Efrem Goldberg

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How do you love yourself without getting an ego? The truth is, some people love themselves way too little. They knock themselves [music] down. They beat themselves up. And some people love themselves too much. They have a great sense of ego and arrogance. They think they're God's gift to the world. The answer is to not love yourself at all, but to love the godliness, the potential, the uniqueness within yourself. To realize that if you're alive, if you're awake, if you're here, you're a child of Hashem. If you woke up this morning, Hashem believes in you. He's renewed your contract. >> [music] >> He thinks that you have a unique purpose to fulfill in this world. In fact, he is endorsing the ultimate expression that you are lovable. You are worth loving. What we love in ourselves is the uniqueness, the godliness, the gift, the difference we're meant to make in this world. So don't love yourself like you're something special. Don't love yourself with a sense of [music] ego, but love the elocus, the unique godly expression within