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:
- Don’t Set Out to Save the World
- Fully alive
- No fresh air
- Becoming unstuck
- Abandoning hope
- Drive all blames into oneself
- What is in front of us right in the moment
- It’s just like that
- How are you
- Just being here again and again and again
- Cultivating Peace
- Disappointment
- Undoing of old ways of seeing
- Moving closer to the truth
- The perfect teacher
- The courage to look at ourselves honestly and gently
- Opening our hearts and minds beyond limit
- Awakening is essential
- Being with us
- The Possibility of Egolessness