Self-Love and Compassion

Self-Love and Compassion influence one another because the way we meet vulnerability inwardly affects how safely we can meet it in others.

Self-Love and Compassion influence one another.

When we can remain kind toward our own difficulty, we often become less threatened by difficulty in others.

Likewise, learning to understand another person’s vulnerability can reveal how brutally we have been treating our own.

Neither capacity requires indulgence.

Compassion can contain accountability.

Self-Love can contain change.

Their shared function is refusing to make worth disappear whenever imperfection becomes visible.

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