Tara Brach’s “Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With The Heart of the Buddha”; Self Compassion

” If we’ve injured someone and are embroiled in guilt and self-recrimination, compassion for ourselves allows us to find a wise and healing way to make amends. If we are drowning in grief and sorrow, arousing compassion helps us remember the love and connection in our life. Rather than pushing them way, we free ourselves by holding our hurting places with the unconditional tenderness of compassion. Compassion means to be with, feel with, suffer with. Classical Buddhist texts describe compassion as the quivering of the heart, a visceral tenderness in the face of suffering. As we practice responding to our suffering with the kindness of compassion, our hearts can become, as Buddhist teacher Sharon Salzberg says, as wide as the world.”