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.
We had to learn...that it did not really matter what we expected from life but rather what life expected from us.
If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
Part of my preparation for the World Champion match against Kasparov was to be ready for his off-board tactics. I did not to react to them at all. Once you start thinking about these things during the game, even analysing them, you're caught.
History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today.
If you want to get each individual's honest opinion, you don't want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.
I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says - "Yes; the little ones does".
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