Love You From
How do you love yourself without love from elsewhere?
I’m looking for a deep answer, nothing simplistic like “Love yourself for who you are” or “Look deep inside you to find yourself” etc I appreciate the sentiment but that suggests it’s like turning a tap on and off and this question is a difficult one to answer. I don’t think there is an answer really is there? But how do I walk on to the right track in this path to loving the self considering I haven’t been able to accept myself all my life?
“There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied. You cannot talk yourself into it or rouse it by straining at the emotions or by dedicating yourself solemnly to the service of mankind. Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself. This conviction will not come through condemnations, through hating oneself, through calling self love bad names in the universe. It comes only in the awareness that one has no self to love.”
–Alan Watts.
Peace and love 
Stevie Wonder – I Just Called To Say I Love You