Barry Zeve Promotes Self-Love

I once knew a man who married himself. He had a wedding picture in his wallet and everything. Said he'd been going through some hard-times in terms of accepting himself, but he still knew he loved himself, so he decided to make it official and express his commitment to himself through a nuptial ceremony between himself and himself. Besides wondering to myself if conservatives would consider self-marriage to be gay marriage, I also thought, that sounds like a Barry Zeve moment.

Barry Zeve is the prophet of self-love. Through books, articles, videos and his blog, he encourages people to love themselves. His site flashes with some of his pithy auto-adorational proverbs:

I love myself; therefore, I am.

Self-love is the musical accompaniment to the movie called Life.

I can't give anyone that which I haven't first given myself.

How many great loves do I get in my lifetime? Just one -- my own.

Zeve helps people become students of self-love by speaking about life as a school that teaches us love and wisdom. He claims that love is the result of the goodness we bring into the world. And that wisdom is the best possible consequence of making mistakes and rectifying them. Besides his books, he even published an article called Marrying Myself in Outword Magazine.

And he seems intent on making sure the honeymoon never ends.

Photo via BarryZeve.com.