Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.
Interpretation
Self-compassion is essential for personal healing and growth.
This quote emphasizes the importance of self-compassion in healing, suggesting that being kind and understanding towards oneself can facilitate recovery from emotional pain and challenges. Theodore Isaac Rubin conveys that rather than criticizing oneself, embracing compassion can lead to profound personal healing and empowerment.
In practice
During a mental health seminar on self-care strategies.
I must learn to love the fool in me the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
Health is relative. There is no such thing as an absolute state of health or sickness. Everyone's physical, mental, and emotional condition is a combination of both.
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
Invest in the "process" rather than the product. Process living neutralizes the depleting and impoverishing effects of chronically living in anticipation. Even when impossible goals occasionally are reached, satisfactions derived from them are invariably disappointing unless the process has given ample satisfaction along the way.
Faith draws the poison from every grief, takes the sting from every loss, and quenches the fire of every pain, and only faith can do it.
Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitudes.
Nimble thought can jump both sea and land.
Far more than any other power, imagination is what sets human beings apart from every other species on earth.
I had a period when I was sixteen where I started to get a big head. I was going through puberty, and I was nominated for an Academy Award. My head got inflated. My friends were the real ones who said, 'You're acting different.' But the truth is that I don't need that, because I don't get out of hand.
Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power.
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