“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.” (Buddha)
Choices made
Things gone wrong
Guilt outliving the event
Inner voice persecutes
Until an understanding voice
Brings clarity
It was never your fault
You were only reacting
Like a caged bird
Forced to sing
For your life
https://onewomansquest.org/2019/05/13/v-j-s-weekly-challenge-48-compassion/
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Oh MY! This is powerful. Sometimes choices aren’t really true choices.
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Very true. Thank-you. 🙂
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You’re welcome.
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We are often harder on ourselves. It is hard to have self compassion.
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Since retiring a few years ago, I’ve learned to be kinder to myself. You’re right about self-compassion being hard to achieve in a world that expects perfection. Thank-you for your thoughts, Heather. 🙂
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This is certainly the realization we hope to achieve – understanding and forgiveness. Nice!
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Thank-you V. J. Sometimes one can forget that with self-compassion, one can find the portal opening to healing. 🙂
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so true, Olga.
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an insightful
way to go 🙂
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Thank-you. It’s interesting how the other can open the door to understanding the human condition. 🙂
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Beautiful post, both words and photo. Thank you so much for reminding us the self compassion.
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Taking care of all those around us, one sometimes forgets to mindfully take time to be kind to ourselves. Thanks for your thoughts, Amy. 🙂
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💗
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Just what I needed to read. Thank you
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Happy that it resonated with you, Arati.
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Very powerful and true Olga! I hope to know that one day! 😀 ❤
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I’m still working on it, but aging brings a certain amount of wisdom and enlightenment. 🙂
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Beautiful but also forceful. I like this very much 🙂
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Thank-you for your kind words, David. Happy that you enjoyed this post. 🙂
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The chief feature as Gurdjieff would say?
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Thank-you for introducing me to Gurdjieff. One of his quotes. “What you need to know is very little, but to know that little takes very very much.”
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This resonated within me! This is making me think. Thank you for sharing❤️
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Thank-you, MZ. 🙂
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