self compassion

everything within our physical, mental, and emotional experience that is unfamiliar or uncomfortable is actually what God is for us, winking at us in a language we cannot yet speak. To awaken fully to this language, and to be able to converse fluently in it, requires feeling what is happening to us in each moment without judgment, agenda, or concer

But part of getting to know yourself is to unknow yourself—to let go of the limiting stories you’ve told yourself about who you are so that you aren’t trapped by them, so you can live your life and not the story you’ve been telling yourself about your life.