What are you relying on?
On a partner? On parents? On business? On children? On the state? On religion?
The catch is that none of these supports provides any guarantees. And you can invest all your efforts into them, try to control them, manipulate them, but it will be in vain, and sooner or later it becomes clear.
What then?
The only option is to rely on yourself. As long as you exist, you can be your own support and encouragement, giving yourself as much love as you need.
How to approach this?
To understand what prevents you from loving yourself?
To see what happens to the parts that seek support from the outside? Why were they forced to do this? What did they lack in their inner space if they chose the external?
Most likely, you.
Your love.
Your acceptance.
Unconditional.
Just as they are.
It’s time to give it to them.
It’s time to feel like the main one in your inner space, bring these parts home, fill your space with love and never betray them again.
This is the most valuable thing that each of us has.
This is how self-reliance arises.
Out of love…