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"At the heart of this offering is an invitation to be still. Such stillness, however, is not a barren field, devoid of substance. It is a silence replete with beauty. It is what Buddhism refers to as sunyata, the boundlessness that characterizes the truth of existence." —Mirabai Starr, from the foreword
In Silent Compassion: Finding God in Contemplation, Richard Rohr focuses on finding God in the depths of silence. Divine...
In Silent Compassion: Finding God in Contemplation, Richard Rohr focuses on finding God in the depths of silence. Divine...
7) Fierce self-compassion: how women can harness kindness to speak up, claim their power, and thrive
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Drawing on research, her personal life story and empirically supported practices, the author of Self-Compassion shows women how to reclaim balance within themselves and use fierce and tender self-compassion to ensure their own wholeness and well-being.
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"A newly designed reissue of Pema Chodron's Always Maintain a Joyful Mind--featuring everday inspiration drawn from the classic Buddhist practice of lojong and instructive commentaries by Pema for making the lojong teachings a practical part of everyday life. This uniquely accessible presentation of lojong, one of Tibetan Buddhism's most renowned practices, gets at the heart of compassion as only Pema Chodron can. Featuring the 59 pithy lojong slogans...
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"We often think of our capacity to experience the suffering of others as the ultimate source of goodness. Many of our wisest policy-makers, activists, scientists, and philosophers agree that the only problem with empathy is that we don't have enough of it. Nothing could be farther from the truth, argues Yale researcher Paul Bloom. In [this book], Bloom [posits that] empathy [is] one of the leading motivators of inequality and immorality in society....
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In this session, learn how to recognize and deal with empathy fatigue and decreasing compassion as your awareness of suffering increases.
Even if you consider yourself a compassionate person, feeling compassion all the time can simply be overwhelming, especially when confronted by large amounts of suffering. In this installment of The Science of Compassion series, Kelly McGonigal explores empathy fatigue and the concept of compassion collapse. As...
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"Attention deficit/hyperactivity (ADHD) and self-compassion experts Mark Bertin and Karen Bluth bring teens powerful skills for overcoming self-criticism and building the executive functioning skills they need to become more confident, resilient, and independent. The book includes mindfulness tools to help teens accept the limitations of ADHD, and self-compassion strategies to help them stop beating themselves up and comparing themselves to their...
18) Self-Compassion
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Are you super-critical of yourself? Do you place high ethics for yourself to meet? Do you struggle with stress or negativity? Do you believe you should punish yourself for your shortcomings rather than treat yourself kindly? If you are like this, how can you change your thinking? A good place to start is to offer yourself self-compassion. The 15-Day Self-Compassion Challenge book is an easy-to-use book that will help you start to be more self-compassionate...
19) Cruel Compassion
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When disloyalty is punishable by death, and the government is always watching…
…They can force you to marry, but they can't force you to love.
Being promised to a stranger would be better than this, given away like an endorsement to the man that brought her nothing but heartbreak and betrayal. Especially when Dimitri is inconveniently even more attractive than she remembered.
With a citizen score of 1, and her father the Head of The New Russian...
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"At the heart of this offering is an invitation to be still. Such stillness, however, is not a barren field, devoid of substance. It is a silence replete with beauty. It is what Buddhism refers to as sunyata, the boundlessness that characterizes the truth of existence." -Mirabai Starr, from the foreword In Silent Compassion: Finding God in Contemplation, Richard Rohr focuses on finding God in the depths of silence. Divine silence is more than the...