“Self-compassion is critical in accountability. We often overcorrect by shaming and blaming ourselves or under correct by avoiding ways to face accountability directly. Using self-compassion doesn’t mean letting yourself off the hook for missteps, but owning them and still holding space to love yourself. Adding compassion to accountability processes decreases shame and isolation and increases growth and connection.”
“Knocking people down a few pegs, verbally or in the silent comfort of your own mind, is an easy but artificial and corrupt method for building yourself up. Everyone with an inferiority complex has a shadow of a superiority complex buried inside them somewhere”
“The reason so many people are unfulfilled and miserable in life is that they take the well-trodden road of shallow materialism, one-upmanship and empty goals for self-aggrandisement. They spend their time investing in self-serving ambitions with the intention of either bettering themselves or impressing other people.”
“Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to “die before you die” and find that there is no death.”