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"The more we identify and acknowledge moments when we're unable to share in someone else's pleasure and ask ourselves whether another person's happiness truly jeopardizes our own, the more we pave the way for experiencing sympathetic joy."
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"Are you a kind of person who likes to keep all your emotions hidden from the people around you! Do you prefer restraining your feelings a little too much! In that case, you must know that too much emotional suppression can have catastrophic impact over your body."

"The good news is that opportunities for love enter our lives unpredictably, whether or not we've perfected self-compassion or befriended our inner critic."

"I'm an invisible monster. I'm incapable of loving anybody. You don't know which is worse."
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"The good news is that opportunities for love enter our lives unpredictably, whether or not we've perfected self-compassion or befriended our inner critic."


"We have to know ourselves to know where we end and another person begins, and we have to develop the skills to navigate the space between us. Or else we will seek wholeness through false means that honor neither us nor those we love."


"Love simply, perpetually exists and that it's a matter of psychic housekeeping to make room for it."


"When we identify the thoughts that keep us from seeing others as they truly are we prepare the ground for real love."


"Sometimes people don't trust the force of kindness. They think love or compassion or kindness will make you weak and kind of stupid and people will take advantage of you you won't stand up for other people."


"I think so many people tend to think of faith as blind adherence to a dogma or unquestioned surrender to an authority figure, and the result is losing self-respect and losing our own sense of what is true. And I don't think of faith in those terms at all."


"When we develop our ability to love in one realm, we simultaneously nourish our ability in others, as long as we remain open to the flow of insight and compassion."


"When we bring deep awareness to whatever's bothering us, the same things might be happening, but we are able to relate to them differently."


"Concepts such as loving kindness should never be used as weapons against our real feelings."


"Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don't want to believe it."
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