To truly love ourselves, we must challenge our beliefs that we need to be different or better.
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Zum Autor"Buddhism has a term for the happiness we feel at someone else’s success or good fortune. Sympathetic joy, as it is known, invites us to celebrate for others."
"From the Buddhist point of view, it is true that emptiness is a characteristic of all of life - if we look carefully at any experience we will find transparency, insubstantiality, with no solid, unchanging core to our experience. But that does not mean that nothing matters."
"How we traverse the space between us when conflict arises has a profound effect on the health and longevity of our relationships."
"Keeping secrets is a consequential act for all involved."
"In order to do anything about the suffering of the world we must have the strength to face it without turning away."
"As we explore new ways of loving and being loved by others, we need to equip ourselves with open, pliant minds; we need to be willing to investigate, experiment, and evaluate as we approach a topic we thought we knew so much about."