Claudiu

"There's no shortcut. I'm no accident.

People like to say it's natural. It's not so. You have to practice and you have to study." — Miles Davis

To prepare for writing my book on shame, I read everything I could find on compassion. I ultimately found a powerful fit between the stories I heard in the interviews and the work of American Buddhist nun Pema Chödrön. In her book The Places That Scare You, Chödrön writes, “When we practice generating compassion, we can expect to experience the

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“Only to the degree that we’ve gotten to know our personal pain, only to the degree that we’ve related with pain at all, will we be fearless enough, brave enough, and enough of a warrior to be willing to feel the pain of others. To that degree, we will be able to take on the pain of others because we will have discovered that their pain and our

14-01-2025.

If you asked me today, after seeing this, that and the other, I would without a doubt say that the perfect way to dress is to have clothes that fit in the desired way- some exceptionally tailored trousers, some really slouchy and loose ones (but this too has to be just right). Aid yourself with a black, or white top- some block colour