If you love a person, you say to that person, "Look, I love you, whatever that may be. I've seen quite a bit of it and I know there's lots that I haven't seen, but still it's you and I want you to be what you want to be. And I won't be happy if I've got you in a cage. You'd be a bird without song."
Alan WattsSo then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
Alan WattsLack of love for the vegetative, subtle, cthonic, pagan, and sexy aspect of the world means death.
Alan Watts