Self-love and self-absorption (i.e. “bondage-to-self”) only leads to loneliness and isolation.
Relieving one from the bondage-to-self is the master key to our happiness and fulfillment.
To love others means to seek their true good, serving them out of love for God and God’s way.
We need to come out of ourselves and look beyond our own narrow interests. The more we love authentically, the more happy and fulfilled our life will become.
We need to ask for the power of grace to purify our hearts and give us the interior strength to put others ahead of ourselves.