Self-Love and Compassion influence one another.
When we can remain kind toward our own difficulty, we often become less threatened by difficulty in others.
Likewise, learning to understand another person’s vulnerability can reveal how brutally we have been treating our own.
Neither capacity requires indulgence.
Compassion can contain accountability.
Self-Love can contain change.
Their shared function is refusing to make worth disappear whenever imperfection becomes visible.
Related capacities: Self-Love · Compassion
