4 Quotes by Christopher K. Germer

A moment of self-compassion can change your entire day. A string of such moments can change the course of your life.

Self-compassion isn’t a “thing” that we either have or don’t have. Instead, as a practitioner and as a therapist, I try to remain open to emotional pain and breathe kindness into it, one moment after the next. MEASURING.

Actually, when bad things happen to us, we tend to have three unfortunate reactions: self-criticism, self-isolation, and self-absorption. Neff’s three components of self-compassion direct us exactly in the opposite direction: self-kindness, recognizing the common humanity in our experience, and a balanced approach to negative emotions.

The suffering itself is not so bad; it’s the resentment against suffering that is the real pain. – ALLEN GINSBERG, poet.