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on their faces. They keep two books: their real book is hidden, the unreal book is on their face. You don't have two books, you have a single book. You don't make double entries, so it is written on your face. It is good. You are a sincere person, and with a sincere person there is a way. With the insincere there is no way.
If you recognise the fact that you don't love yourself then there is a possibility that you can... because this is sheer stupidity not to love oneself. If you don't love yourself then who is going to? If not you, then who? And if not now, when?
The first and the most fundamental thing is to love yourself -- then others will love, they will follow, but nobody is going to break the ice if you don't love yourself. But it is good that you have understood it.
So start loving, learn to love yourself, be more soft with yourself. You have been taught to be hard.
You have tried to discipline yourself, you have tried to be in control. But it is there; it will come up.
From this moment, start loving yourself, be more tender to yourself. Don't be hard, don't be cruel! Give a little joy to your body, to your mind. It is your mind and you have to take care of it. It is your body; treat it as a temple. And small things make much difference....
You take a shower every day: you can do it very unconcernedly, you can do it very lovingly. You can feel the water falling on the body. You can enjoy the feel, the freshness, the joy that comes to the body -- how every cell of the body starts feeling fresh. You can enjoy it is your body: your body is feeling good. When you eat food you can just go on stuffing like a duty....
From this moment start doing just small things, mm? and within three weeks you will see that that thing which was hidden inside has come up.
[Osho reiterates what he has said often before, that we are conditioned from an early age to love everyone -- parents, siblings, teachers, priests -- but not to love ourselves.]
So start loving yourself, and if somebody loves you... and there are so many people to love! There are two needs which are love needs: one is to love somebody and one is to
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