As we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others – what and whom we can work with, and how – becomes wider.

Pema Chödron

from the book When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

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Further quotes from the book When Things Fall Apart:

• Awakening is essential
• Negativity begets negativity
• Exposing ourselves to annihilation
• Until we got it
• Fully alive
• Become Familiar with Fear
• Disappointment
• How are you
• Only in our own experience
• The Possibility of Egolessness
• Don’t Set Out to Save the World
• Drive all blames into oneself
• The perfect teacher
• What is in front of us right in the moment
• Flooding the world with your kindness
• No fresh air
• Finding out what is true
• Abandoning hope
• Becoming unstuck
• Moving closer to the truth