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Philautia — self-love

Philautia—genuine self-love—is not narcissism but the radical acceptance of your own flawed existence, the willingness to care for yourself with the tenderness you'd offer a beloved. Without it, you either demand that others fill a void nothing can fill, or you abandon yourself to appease them, and neither path leads anywhere but exhaustion.

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