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Maybe rather than trying to practice Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself,
we could better understand and practice,
Be Kind to Your Neighbor and To Your Self.

Be Kind. Now we all know what that means.
Being kind has no connotations (as love can have) of sexuality or martyrdom.
 Being kind is simply that -- being kind to others, being kind to ourselves.

For me, it just made Loving Myself and Loving My Neighbor a whole lot simpler.
I just have to "be kind" to myself, to "be kind" to my neighbor.
I focus on having kind thoughts, kind motives, kind actions
 
 
Marie T. Russell
Excerpted from
Being Kind