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Poetic Medicine

by John Fox

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Feb 08, 2020 10:39PM

“What if we committed to speaking fresh creativity and vision into culture rather than denouncing and boycotting other cultural products?”
― Makoto Fujimura, Culture Care: Reconnecting with Beauty for Our Common Life

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“Clearly you don’t have complete control over your actions, or else you’d only act in ways that you approved of. So why are you judging yourself so harshly for the way you are?”
― Kristin Neff, Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself

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“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven? —KAHLIL GIBRAN, The Prophet”
― Kristin Neff, Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself

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“The beauty of self-compassion is that instead of replacing negative feelings with positive ones, new positive emotions are generated by embracing the negative ones. The positive emotions of care and connectedness are felt alongside our painful feelings. When we have compassion for ourselves, sunshine and shadow are both experienced simultaneously. This is important—ensuring that the fuel of resistance isn’t added to the fire of negativity. It also allows us to celebrate the entire range of human experience, so that we can become whole. As Marcel Proust said, “We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.”
― Kristin Neff, Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself

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“Even if we do manage to get our act together, the goalposts for what counts as “good enough” seem always to remain frustratingly out of reach. We must be smart and fit and fashionable and interesting and successful and sexy. Oh, and spiritual, too. And no matter how well we do, someone else always seems to be doing it better. The result of this line of thinking is sobering: millions of people need to take pharmaceuticals every day just to cope with daily life. Insecurity, anxiety, and depression are incredibly common in our society, and much of this is due to self-judgment, to beating ourselves up when we feel we aren’t winning in the game of life.”
― Kristin Neff, Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself

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