You’ve often heard people say that you can only care for others to the degree that you appreciate yourself. If you admire someone yet despise yourself, you won’t value the affection that you give other person. When you realize that caring come from God, you can feel the connection between yourself, your beloved one, and the Divine.  This is what self-love is really all about: It doesn’t mean believing that you’re better than someone else, but rather that everything attractive you see in another person is a mirror of the beauty within yourself.