Beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself. This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.
The man* who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness. He alone lives, while other people, slaves of ceremony, let life slip past them in a kind of dream. Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.
~Virginia Woolf
when I sit with each discomfort along the way…
inquiry for today~ how will you know yourself today?
There can be no self-care without self-compassion, which is compassion turned inward.
It is the ability to connect to our feelings, to respond to our suffering with kindness,
and to desire that our suffering be ameliorated.
~Chanequa Walker-Barnes
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