Ego and love cannot co-exist
They are like light and darkness; when light comes, darkness disappears. If you love yourself you will be surprised: self-love means the self disappears.
In self-love there is no self ever found. That is the paradox: self-love is utterly selfless. It is not selfish because whenever there is light there is no darkness, and whenever there is love there is no self.
Love melts the frozen self. The self is like an ice cube, love is like the morning sun. The warmth of love...and the self starts melting. The more you love yourself the less you will find of the self in you, and then it becomes a great meditation, a great leap into godliness. And you know it!
You may not know it as far as self-love is concerned because you have not loved yourself, but you have loved other people; glimpses of it must have happened to you. There must have been rare moments when for a moment, suddenly you were not there and only love was there, only love energy flowing, from no center, from nowhere to nowhere. When two lovers are sitting together there are two nothingnesses sitting together, two zeros sitting together – and that is the beauty of love, that it makes you utterly empty of the self.
Remember again: Empty yourself! Pour yourself into love so that in your inner world space is created. Godliness can enter only when there is space in you to contain it. And great space will be needed because you are inviting the greatest guest. You are inviting the whole existence into you. You will need infinite nothingness in you.
Love is the best way to become nothing.
