Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN

When we resist fear, we are living partially below the line—identified with the fear, and cut off from our full lucidity and presence.

When we encounter the difficult ones like hurt or fear and acknowledge “this belongs,” there’s a natural sense of enlarging and more ease with what is moving through us.

Sometimes our unwillingness to experience our feelings shows up as depression.

a fear of actually feeling your fear that keeps suffering locked in place.

When we’re stuck and reactive, anxiety feels totally personal—a negative commentary about ourselves.

With practice, we discover that when our resistance is gone, the demons are gone.

We may still feel fear, but we are above the line, reconnected to a larger space of presence and self-compassion.

Especially when fear is intense, we’re afraid we’ll drown in it, be annihilated.

The fear we are unwilling to feel controls and binds our life.