That is why it is important to cultivate compassion for ourselves: we have to love ourselves enough to know that we are worth the effort to get to know ourselves as we really are. We have to love ourselves enough to know that even if we become anxious or depressed, we will not abandon ourselves again. When we are willing to experience the truth of how we have been and how we are now, and when we are willing to let ourselves be healed, our true nature emerges. The outcome is guaranteed: all we have to do is to show up.
