Love yourself, says Buddha, and then immediately he adds, and watch. That is meditation—that is Buddha’s name for meditation. But the first requirement is to love yourself, and then watch. If you don’t love yourself, and start watching, you may feel like committing suicide!

The main thing socially intelligent people understand is that your relationship to everyone else is an extension of your relationship to yourself.

The main thing socially intelligent people understand is that your relationship to everyone else is an extension of your relationship to yourself.

Mathilde, je te demande de ne pas sous-estimer ma situation : je me bats pour trouver le sens de ma vie, de ma vie tout entière. Chaque homme a des devoirs envers les autres, mais encore plus envers lui-même. Il…