Sublime

I’ve learned one true thing about me. Maybe there is more to learn. Hello, soul. I am learning what you love. I will get more of this for us. I promise. I have met my self and I am going to care for her fiercely. At least as fiercely as I care for everyone else in my life. I will not abandon, ignore, or lose myself again.

Carl Rogers

Research shows that people tend to think they’re funnier, more logical, more popular, better looking, nicer, more trustworthy, wiser, and more intelligent than others.

By spending a little time cultivating friendship towards yourself, you are gradually dissolving the negative forces of fear and guilt within. This reduces your adhesive preoccupation with your own mental landscape which, in turn, releases a wellspring of happiness, compassion and creativity that benefits everyone. A good way of looking at this is t

We don’t need others to respond with care and compassion in order to feel worthy of love. We don’t need to look outside ourselves for the acceptance and security we crave.

Nonattachment to results + self compassion = a supple relentlessness that is hard to match. Push hard, play to win, but don’t assume the fetal position if things don’t go your way. This, I came to believe, is what T. S. Eliot meant when he talked about learning “to care and not to care.”

As if excluding them was even possible.