Undoubtedly, as long as we do not have a good relationship with ourselves we will not have good relationships with others, and the result will be all types of conflict.
It is essential to become much more aware of ourselves through direct self-observation.
A general Gnostic rule in the Gnostic Esoteric Work is that when we do have a point of contention with another person, we can be sure that this is the very thing against which we must work on within ourselves.
Whatever it is that we criticize so much in others is something which lies on the dark side of ourselves, and which we neither know nor want to recognize.
