Love yourself first and then love your neighbor like yourself, is the "Love Yourself First theory".

It is the world's most fundamental and basic fact. Everybody loves themselves and loves themselves the most. But only few admit it. If everybody had the courage and sense to humbly admit it, the world on its own would have been a differently better place.

I believe that if Jesus Christ had himself written the Bible, he perhaps would have categorically stated, "Love thyself first and then love thy neighbor like thyself." But unfortunately, the Bible being written from hearsay, by people claiming to be followers, with no surety of guidance from the Holy Spirit, and the Bible being a compilation of whatever books and letters that were available at that point of time, cannot be taken as the last word on Christ, but only as an indication of the essence of his teaching.

The Bible was used by most western nations, to belittle the people and philosophies of most other nations and was used as a title aid to conquer the rest of the unsuspecting world. How could a wrong interpretation of Jesus Christ's fundamental teaching have anyway conquered the souls?

Unfortunately, not just the Holy Bible, the Holy Koran and the Holy Gita have also fallen into the hands of unscrupulous elements as a tool for the attainment of their goals. How these people interpret the sentences of the holy books with emphasis on various punctuations, creating crusaders, jihadis and karsevaks, for the sake of power and profits is clearly depicted in the song "The Trap"

We often have a feeling that happiness is achieved at the end of a strenuous effort or suffering. This has been because right from ancient times there has always been a perverted tendency to compare most things to sexuality. Happiness is not a climax. It is a continuous feeling and a state of the mind. Most philosophies and religious streams project sacrifice and penance as the central theme and that is why we have very few great people like Mahatma Gandhi or Mother Theresa. But when projected on the "Love Yourself First Theory" and when given the freedom to admit that simple truth of self love, loving one another becomes as easy as loving oneself and every man would be a great man.

Loving yourself only is different from loving yourself first.

Not loving yourself and then trying to love your neighbor like you don't love yourself is the root cause of all evil.