When you are aware of and own your suffering or confusion, pain or feeling of isolation you are valuing and paying attention to you. The more you know and understand about the self the more compassionate you become with you. Self-compassion means you hold greater light and can help others without your personal neediness or strings attached or running any hidden agendas. Culturally our training has been to sacrifice and serve. That has not succeeded in making a calm peaceful spiritual planet or population. Suffering was designed to point out that there might be a better way. This book points...