"It is necessary to learn that you are worthy of being loved. Buddha put it quite simply: 'You can search the whole tenfold 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 . . . . And it is by first 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."