"It is necessary to learn that you are worthy of being loved. Buddha put it quite simply: 'You can search the whole universe and not find a single being more worthy of love and compassion than the one seated here - yourself.' Self-compassion and self-forgiveness are not weaknesses, but the roots of our courage and magnanimity. Sometimes compassion for ourselves and others seems hard to find. But even if you lose touch with those feelings during your most intense suffering, compassion is an essential part of our true nature. In fact, it is in this self-compassion and self-love that you find the strength to carry the lamp through your darkest nights. And it is first by practicing self-compassion that you find not only a way to hold your own struggles and sorrows in your heart - but through them you learn how to connect with the sufferings and sorrows of all those around."
From Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield's book A Lamp in the Darkness:
"It is necessary to learn that you are worthy of being loved. Buddha put it quite simply: 'You can search the whole universe and not find a single being more worthy of love and compassion than the one seated here - yourself.' Self-compassion and self-forgiveness are not weaknesses, but the roots of our courage and magnanimity. Sometimes compassion for ourselves and others seems hard to find. But even if you lose touch with those feelings during your most intense suffering, compassion is an essential part of our true nature. In fact, it is in this self-compassion and self-love that you find the strength to carry the lamp through your darkest nights. And it is first by practicing self-compassion that you find not only a way to hold your own struggles and sorrows in your heart - but through them you learn how to connect with the sufferings and sorrows of all those around."
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AuthorTarn Wilson is the author of the memoir The Slow Farm and numerous essays. You may read more of her work at tarnwilson.com. Archives
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