Having made friends with yourself, you cannot just contain that friendship within you. You must have some outlet, which is your relationship with the world. So compassion becomes a bridge to the world outside. Trust and compassion for oneself bring inspiration to dance with life, to communicate with the energies of the world.

From “The Open Way,” in Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism, page 97 to 98.

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