* Loving comes from the inside and through self acceptance we can become more loving people.

* Learning to love your Self is essential in the development of the ability to act in loving ways with others. If you always focus on your faults, you will most likely highlight the shortcomings of others, says the writer of the article Marilyn Barnicke Belleghem.

* The critical self-talk will spill into your conversations and you will be known as a negative person.

* While much of the responsibility of parenting is teaching, it need not be constant critism.

* Good parenting involves accepting mistakes and teaching correct ways to live with patience and love.

* Love involves opening up of our selves, heart, mind and soul. Do you have the courage to be honest with yourself?

* Love is living in the world today, and manifests in the actions of human beings. There is also great evil, distrust and hate alive in the world today. We must cast the evil out of our lives and confront with trust and courage the values that are core of a loving life.

* Learning to love involves learning to face your Self, and accepting responsibility to become the person you want to be. God is always there with you, like your inner dialogue, whether you are listening or not.

(Abstract from an article published in the Times of India dated 27 April 2008)

Abstract by - Keshav Singhal. (For full text of the article, please see sourced publication)