Look upon yourself with love and compassion. If love and compassion are foreign to you, and your heart has felt so much pain that you cannot embrace it, place your hands firmly upon your heart. Feel it beating inside your chest. You may feel like a fragile walking shell upon this Earth, but you are still here. You have been made to feel that you are not deserving of love, but this is not true. Your heart deeply loves you. For it was the first one to see you and know who you are. It knew you before you were named and claimed by this world. It loves you so much that it continues to beat to keep you here with it.
Be at peace in this knowing, and when you feel that you are alone and have no reason for being, rest your hands upon your heartbeat and know that there is a destiny unfolding for you with each beat. You may not know the path, but your heart knows. For through the splendor of your being, the creator lives and breathes.