Why Self-Love is the Key to Your Relationships

That's why people who hate themselves in a deep place can't really love other people. Not because they don't want to, because it's a manifestation of your own experience, of your own feeling. If I feel it deep down, maybe subconsciously, I'm an inconsequential, worthless, degenerate shmata, so who's really loving you? An inconsequential, degenerate, worthless shmata. So, how does that feel to be loved by a shmata? Tell me. But, if I have $100 in my pocket, I can give you $100. If I don't have $100 in my pocket, I could want to give it to you, but I can't give it to you.