Chris Germer, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, speaker, and author on mindfulness and self-compassion. He developed the field of mindfulness-based self-compassion therapy with Kristin Neff.
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Stay a verb—don’t become a noun.
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Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.
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If you bring forth what is within you it will save you. If you do not, it will destroy you.
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We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue in the same predictable pattern.
Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turn, then to go forward does not get you any nearer.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.