When you withhold your compassion from yourself, you withhold your gifts and unique presence from others…You can’t be as patient, creative, strong, loving, or reliable when you’re punishing yourself – you can’t be you.*
Katherine Morgan Schafler
It is through imagination, Blake promises us, that we will be redeemed.**
John Higgs
You’ve already been freed,
Now it’s time to free yourself,
Not to ignore whatever
it is that causes you to be
hard on yourself, but to face this
with a liberated imagination
to be fully with us here
giving–
*Katherine Morgan Schafler’s The Perfectionist’s Guide To Losing Control;
**John Higgs’ William Blake Vs The World.
THIN|SILENCE 