Self Compassion

February 14, 2016

Is it possible to have compassion for oneself? If we understand compassion as the ability to experience another’s pain, how would it be possible to have compassion for oneself?  Don’t we just, well, have our own pain and suffering?  How is the notion of compassion for ourselves relevant? Somehow it is.  Somehow it must be … Read More

Practicing True Beauty in Everyday Life – Compassion

February 8, 2015

  Beauty Practice: Practice Feeling Compassion Compassion is specifically about the ability to feel another’s experience of suffering.  This Beauty practice is purposely not expressed as “practice being compassionate” as I don’t know if one can be compassionate until one has really felt compassion on a somewhat regular basis.  Can one routinely choose a behavior, … Read More