Well it's true for all of us in certain ways.
At my old Presbyterian Church in my former hometown a lay preacher once preached about how we are told to love our neighbour as we love ourselves. And I've never forgotten how he said that we really do find it easy to love ourselves in many ways. When we stub our toe or hit our finger with a hammer we nurse the injured body part and do all we can to make it feel better. Or if we are starving or afflicted with the flu we don't tell our bodies to just sit still and quietly suffer. We do what we can to relieve the suffering with food or medication respectively.
And I think taking it even further when we're alone and feel bored we ask ourselves what we would like to do or if we're sad and depressed our inner minds tell us maybe we should seek out counsel or advice from somewhere. And if we realize there is danger involved in some situation we watch out for ourselves saying "Be careful".
So in many little ways all of us really are friends individually with ourselves are we not?
So who wants to know why I find it spiritually uplifting? (I've already said a portion of the answer
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