Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with the pain. • James Baldwin

Trusting the gold is an intrinsic part of calling it forth.

I could not lie anymore, so I started to call my dog “God.” First he looked confused, then he started smiling, then he even danced. I kept at it: now he doesn’t even bite. I am wondering if this might work on people? • sant tukaram, seventeenth-century poet-saint, translated by Daniel Ladinsky

The fear we are unwilling to feel controls and binds our life.

Nelson Mandela wrote, “It never hurts to think too highly of a person; often they become ennobled and act better because of it.”

The more we can trust the loving inside ourselves, the more we can connect with others from a place of wholeness, spontaneity, and authentic care.

Sometimes our unwillingness to experience our feelings shows up as depression.

have a favorite saying posted in my office: “To be kind, you must swerve regularly from your path.”

Yet, as Buddhist teacher and author Ruth King writes, “anger is not transformative, it is initiatory.” It’s an energy we need to use wisely.