The more you extend kindness to yourself, the more it will become your automatic response to others.
Interpretation
Practicing kindness towards yourself leads to naturally being kind to others.
This quote by Wayne Dyer emphasizes the importance of self-kindness. When you treat yourself with compassion and understanding, it fosters a mindset of kindness that extends to how you interact with others. This creates a positive cycle, as self-kindness not only enhances your own well-being but also encourages you to reflect that kindness in your relationships with others.
In practice
In a motivational speech about self-care and mental health.
What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won't always be bleak, there's a way to rise above the present circumstances. Hope is an internal awareness that you do not have to suffer forever, and that somehow, somewhere there is a remedy for despair that you will come upon if you can only maintain this expectancy in your heart.
Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
Live forgiveness every day rather than just talking about it on Sunday.
Say to Yourself when Someone Else is Criticizing U, 'What U Think of Me is None of My Business'
Conflict is a violation of harmony. If you participate in it, you're part of the problem, not the solution.
My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I've had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm's way until they could be their own guides.
"Softly, softly, catchee monkey," is the West African rendering of a very valuable precept. An awful lot of men fail through lack of patient persistence.
I hate to see anybody sink. I hate to see anybody lose their dream, lose their home, something like that.
We are like dwarfs sitting on the shoulders of giants. We see more, and things that are more distant, than they did, not because our sight is superior or because we are taller than they, but because they raise us up, and by their great stature add to ours.
Meditation is the only way to overcome fear. There is no other way. Why does meditation help us overcome fear? In meditation we identify ourselves with the vast, with the Absolute. When we are afraid of someone or something, it is because we do not feel that particular person or thing is a part of us. When we have established conscious oneness with the Absolute, with the Infinite Vast, the everything there is part of us. And how can we be afraid of ourselves?
If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out
One of the hardest expressions of self-assertiveness is challenging your limiting beliefs.
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