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Compassion & relationship challenges

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Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN

Tara Brach is an in-the-trenches teacher whose work counters today's ever-increasing onslaught of news, conflict, demands, and anxieties—stresses that leave us rushing around on auto-pilot and cut off from the presence and creativity that give our lives meaning.

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The Compassionate Instinct: The Science of Human Goodness

Leading scientists and science writers reflect on the life-changing, perspective-changing, new science of human goodness. Where once science painted humans as self-seeking and warlike, today scientists of many disciplines are uncovering the deep roots of human goodness.

Dacher Keltner (editor), Jason Marsh (editor), Jeremy Adam Smith (editor)

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Just-Like-Me Compassion Meditation

"Realizing that the other person is also just like me is the basis on which we can develop compassion, not only toward those around us but also toward our enemy. Normally, when we think about our enemy, we think about harming him.

Ram Dass, Mirabai Bush

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FindCenter People’s sense of self-worth is pivotal to their ability to look clearly at the hurt they’ve caused. The more solid one’s sense of self regard, the more likely that that person can feel empathy and compassion for the hurt party, and apologize from an authentic center.

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A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life

Perhaps the most important book yet written on meditation, the process of inner transformation, and the integration of spiritual practice into our American way of life, A Path with Heart brings alive one by one the challenges of spiritual living in the modern world.

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Be Direct with Your Needs

When having tough conversations, it's helpful to speak with compassionate directness — balancing clarity with kindness. In today’s exercise, we’ll explore what speaking with both honesty and understanding means to you.

The Daily Shine

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Can You Mend a Broken Bond?

They were childhood best friends until one came out as queer. Now, two college students reconnect and try to see the world through one another's eyes.

The Science of Happiness

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FindCenter The best apologies are short, and don’t go on to include explanations that run the risk of undoing them. An apology isn’t the only chance you ever get to address the underlying issue. The apology is the chance you get to establish the ground for future communication.

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Do You Really See Them?

When we talk about creating space in the mind in meditation, we are talking about allowing thoughts and feelings to breathe. But when we do this for ourselves, we are also practicing doing this for other people.

Radio Headspace

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Who Would You Be Without Them?

Think of an important person in your life. Now imagine you never met. Our guest practices counting his blessings by picturing his life without a special person from his past.

The Science of Happiness

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