The one point missed by most comments is that - until everyone could face themselves as they truly were and accept themselves as such, they could not truly love another person (desire is easy - love is hard). Loving yourself requires you to accept your faults - just as loving another requires accepting their faults - and loving them /yourself in spite of those faults. Humans are naturally selfish, jealous, greedy and self-serving so, love is not a natural state for us (the reason love is so overwhelming). We must fight our natural state to love another person and it is a constant battle to maintain. However, the battle is easier to win once you find the person for which you are willing to defy your own true nature.
2020-10-04 18:24 marked
The real moral to this story