If we learn to love ourselves by being still, and we learn to love others by withdrawing the way we project our emotions on to them, we learn to love God simply by being loved, by allowing ourselves to be loved. Our love of God originates in God’s love for us.
The love I speak of is not our love for God, [St John says] but the love he showed us in sending his Son as the remedy for the defilement of our sins. We love because God loved us first. (1 John 4:10,19)
