Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.
Interpretation
Self-compassion is essential for personal healing and growth.
This quote emphasizes the importance of self-compassion in healing, suggesting that being kind and understanding towards oneself can facilitate recovery from emotional pain and challenges. Theodore Isaac Rubin conveys that rather than criticizing oneself, embracing compassion can lead to profound personal healing and empowerment.
In practice
During a mental health seminar on self-care strategies.
I must learn to love the fool in me the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
Health is relative. There is no such thing as an absolute state of health or sickness. Everyone's physical, mental, and emotional condition is a combination of both.
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
Invest in the "process" rather than the product. Process living neutralizes the depleting and impoverishing effects of chronically living in anticipation. Even when impossible goals occasionally are reached, satisfactions derived from them are invariably disappointing unless the process has given ample satisfaction along the way.
Nothing is as dangerous as a sure thing.
True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition.
If we function according to our ability alone, we get the glory; if we function according to the power of the Spirit within us, God gets the glory.
If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out
There are many ways to calm a negative energy without suppressing or fighting it. You recognize it, you smile to it, and you invite something nicer to come up and replace it; you read some inspiring words, you listen to a piece of beautiful music, you go somewhere in nature, or you do some walking meditation.
Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
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