#186 Self-compassion is not self-pity July 30 17
Self-compassion is not self-pity
The word compassion comes from the French compassion and before Latin word “compati” /compasio: com= together, pati or patio = suffering /pain. The exact meaning is “ suffering with”.
The Dalai Lama is advocating over and over learning and expressing compassion first for self so we can to express compassion to others because, as he said, without self-compassion, expressing compassion for others is difficult if not impossible.
So, self-compassion means to “to suffer with self.” Sounds weird, isn’t it?