Search results for “self compassion”
I Regard With Compassion, Therefore I Am: Descartes on How We Acquire Nobility of Soul and the Crucial Difference Between Confidence and Pride
“Pride … is always a serious fault, the seriousness of which is greater in proportion as the justification for one’s self-esteem is less.”
The Third Self: Mary Oliver on Time, Concentration, the Artist’s Task, and the Central Commitment of the Creative Life
“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.”
Alison Bechdel on Writing, Therapy, Self-Doubt, and How the Messiness of Life Feeds the Creative Conscience
“It’s by writing… by stepping back a bit from the real thing to look at it, that we are most present.”
Susan Sontag on Selfies, Selfhood, and How the Camera Helps Us Navigate Complexity
“There is a dialectical exchange between simplicity and complexity, like the one between self-revelation and self-concealment.”
The Art of Self-Culture and the Crucial Difference Between Being Educated and Being Cultured: John Cowper Powys’s Forgotten Wisdom from 1929
“The art of self-culture begins with a deeper awareness … of the marvel of our being alive at all; alive in a world as startling and mysterious, as lovely and horrible, as the one we live in.”
Meditation Teacher Sharon Salzberg on What Compassion Really Means and How We Can Train Our Attention Toward It
How a continuing sense of mutual discovery creates the opening to true compassion.
Lying in Politics: Hannah Arendt on Deception, Self-Deception, and the Psychology of Defactualization
“No matter how large the tissue of falsehood that an experienced liar has to offer, it will never be large enough … to cover the immensity of factuality.”
Cicero on the Envy as a Counterintuitive Gateway to Compassion and Its Power as a Tuning Fork for Our Motivation
“Wisdom is an acquaintance with all divine and human affairs, and a knowledge of the cause of everything.”
Havelock Ellis on the Function of Taboos, Their Vital Role in Community, and How They Bolster the Discipline of Compassion
“Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet … will allow us the same or nearly the same degree of freedom and privilege that they claim for themselves.”
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