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To Recover from Failure, Try Some Self-Compassion

By Christopher Germer — 2017

When things go wrong in our lives, we tend to become our own worst enemy.

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Listening to Your Intuitive Self

“Let us become silent that we may hear the whispers of the gods … There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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don Jose Ruiz
2016
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Why You Should Not Take Anything Personally | Don Jose Ruiz

In this short video, Don Jose Ruiz shares the tips and advice we could take back in our life to put disagreement in action and not taking anything personally. You have UNLIMITED potential.

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don Jose Ruiz
2017
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Applied Buddhist Psychology: Buddha Nature with Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D.

Isa describes the importance of recognizing and understanding this often overlooked aspect of the self. Sometimes called the Higher Self, Buddha Nature is that aspect of the self that exists in everyone which is consistently and constantly connected to compassionate and joyful awareness.

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The Dalai Lama
2015
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Dr. Robert Firestone on Developing Self-Compassion

Dr. Robert Firestone talks about the importance of self-compassion and being a good friend to yourself.

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Robert Firestone
2017
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When we take rejection as proof of our inadequacies, it’s hard to allow ourselves to risk being truly seen again. . . . The problem arises when shame kicks in and we aren’t able to view our flaws, limitations, and vulnerabilities in a patient, self-loving way.

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Harriet Lerner
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Trauma is not what happens to us, but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness.

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Peter A. Levine
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Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.

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Harriet Lerner
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Letting ourselves be forgiven is one of the most difficult healings we will undertake. And one of the most fruitful.

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Stephen Levine
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I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.

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C. S. Lewis
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Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies: And Other Rituals to Fix Your Life

By the time she was in her late twenties, Tara Schuster was a rising TV executive who had worked for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and helped launch Key & Peele to viral superstardom. By all appearances, she had mastered being a grown-up.

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Tara Schuster
2020
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