“I am your Jesus, born Incarnate. My sister, I have come to help you to understand that it is so much self-love which comprises the abyss between Heaven and earth. This self-love is inordinate, uncompromised and the root of every sin. This is so, for the sinner is attracted to the sin through some form of disordered self-love. Notice I say ‘disordered self-love'. I desire each one love and respect himself as God's creation. Self-love is inordinate when it is first, and God and neighbor are second.”

“Here are some forms this unmitigated self-love may take. Self-pity is one doorway Satan uses. In this type of self-love, the soul is taken into the past losing site of the present moment. He has a ‘poor me' attitude–‘look what happened to me'. He loses sight of the redemptive value of the Cross. He places himself at the center of his thoughts.”

“Another form of self-centeredness is too much concern for one's appearance, health and/or comforts. Much time may be spent on outer appearances with little regard for what is in the heart. Or the person may be consumed with concern for reputation. This, too, is passing. It will not matter at your judgment how you appeared to others–only to Me!”

“The soul may open the door to self-centeredness by trying to please himself first, then others. Seeking to satisfy his own every comfort and then serving others is not Holy Love.”

“In your thoughts ask for the grace not to think of how everything affects you. It will be given. Ask, instead of thinking of self, to focus your thoughts on Me, on My Mother, on eternal life, on the lives of the saints and on the needs of others. This grace, too, shall be given.”

“Follow this path, for it is the bridge of Holy Love which spans the abyss of disordered self-love–the bridge which separates man from God.”