Four currents run through this cross, and each one is a different face of love. The first is love of yourself, which is really self-acceptance in action. It carries a code of behaviour, several distinct ways of moving through the world, and the more fully you know and accept what makes you you, the more your way of being becomes something other people can learn from. The second is love of humanity in all its variety, with a rhythm that will not stay fixed. You run fast for a while, then slow, and that swing keeps you open to people who live nothing like you do. The third, running underneath, is love of the body and of physical life, a dedication that carries an experience all the way through its cycle. The fourth is love without ranking, an evenness that treats all of life as equally worthy.
Watch how these four move as one rhythm. You push the world a little further toward love simply by being yourself, and specifically by loving the part of yourself that does not match. Your difference is not the obstacle to your purpose, it is the vehicle for it. When you stop apologising for how you are made and live it plainly, the people around you feel freer to do the same. This is a personal journey. Your life is oriented around your own unfolding rather than around carrying someone else's story, and that is healthy self-focus rather than selfishness. Others will spark things in you, and the movement stays yours.
None of this reveals itself at once. A cross like this is a direction, not a fixed job description, and it shows you its meaning slowly, across a lifetime of experience. The way to live it well is simple to name and takes practice to trust: follow your Strategy and your Authority, and let your behaviour be an honest expression of who you are rather than a performance. Do that, and the theme stops being an idea and becomes the life you are actually living.