Charlie Chaplin – As I Began To Love Myself – Self Love Poem
Charlie Chaplin wrote a beautiful self-love poem on his 70th birthday (April 16, 1959): ‘As I began to love myself’. I was struck by the wisdom and had to share it with you.
If you are already your own loving, best friend, maybe you’ll find some thoughts here to add to the way you care for yourself and think about yourself—and your life. I wish you a fulfilling journey.
Jacquie.
Here’s how Chaplin’s self love poem goes….
As I Began to Love Myself – Self Love Poem by Charlie Chaplin
As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth.
Today, I know, this is “AUTHENTICITY”.
As I began to love myself I understood how much it can offend somebody. As I try to force my desires on this person, even though I knew the time was not right and the person was not ready for it, and even though this person was me.
How to manifest self love.
Today I call it “RESPECT”.
I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow.
Today I call it “MATURITY”.
I began to love myself I understood that at any circumstance, I am in the right place at the right time, and everything happens at the exactly right moment. So I could be calm.
Today I call it “SELF-CONFIDENCE”.
I began to love myself I quit stealing my own time, and I stopped designing huge projects for the future. Today, I only do what brings me joy and happiness, things I love to do and that make my heart cheer, and I do them in my own way and in my own rhythm.
Today I call it “SIMPLICITY”.
I began to love myself I freed myself of anything that is no good for my health – food, people, things, situations, and everything that drew me down and away from myself. At first I called this attitude a healthy egoism.
Today I know it is “LOVE OF ONESELF”.
I began to love myself I quit trying to always be right, and ever since, I was wrong less of the time.
Self love is accepting who you are.
Today I discovered that is “MODESTY”.
I began to love myself I refused to go on living in the past and worry about the future. Now, I only live for the moment, where EVERYTHING is happening.
Today I live each day, day by day, and I call it “FULFILLMENT”.
I began to love myself I recognized that my mind can disturb me and it can make me sick. But as I connected it to my heart, my mind became a valuable ally.
Today I call this connection “WISDOM OF THE HEART”.
We no longer need to fear arguments, confrontations or any kind of problems with ourselves or others. Even stars collide, and out of their crashing, new worlds are born.
Today I know THAT IS “LIFE”!
Charlie Chaplin
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