Sublime

the loving-kindness meditation.

I was no longer striving to rid myself of pain; rather I was learning to relate with care to the suffering I felt. From the very start, these practices carried me to a loving, open and accepting awareness that felt

We lose ourselves in thoughts about what is wrong, how long it will last, what we should do about it and how the pain reflects our unworthiness.

The compassion is to let people be as they need to be without changing them.

when we feel we’ve caused great suffering, we can’t imagine feeling compassion for ourselves.

However, as psychologist Carl Rogers’s seminal insight proclaims: “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

Spiritual practices such as meditation slowly help us to extricate ourselves from attachment to the levels of illusion of our separateness.

On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.