Even reading the title, “Love Yourself Before All the Rest,” sounds selfish, and this is exactly what author, Anita Moorjani, thought too. We are taught from childhood that putting our needs before the needs of others is selfish. For most of her life, Moorjani gave and gave of herself without thought to her own needs. After cancer and a close brush with death, however, she learned that you cannot always put others’ needs before your own. You must nurture yourself first so that you are then able to nurture others. You must also love and accept yourself unconditionally before you can truly give freely of yourself and love others. Each of us is a gift to the universe. See that in yourself, and you can then see it in others.