Healing is not becoming the best version of ourselves. Healing is letting the worst version of ourselves be loved.
Nothing has to be different for us to be whole. It is not a matter of change as much as it is of merciful acceptance. We don’t even have to be less angry or less frightened or less doubtful. We don’t have to be more loving, or more compassionate, or more wise. To be whole is just to take ourselves within wholeheartedly, to meet even our lovelessnes
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We must change our mind-set from one of self-improvement to one of self-liberation. Self-liberation means freedom from our limiting beliefs, our misguided idea that there is something wrong with us that needs to be “fixed.” Our constant attempts to “get it right” and to be “perfect” leave us in a state of exhaustion, never resting in the present mo
... See moreSuffering cannot be healed through self-hate. Only through compassionate acceptance can suffering be healed. If we accept, if we open ourselves, life will transform us. If we resist, if we try to run away, pain and suffering are reinforced, and we deepen the conditioning that causes