On Valentine’s Day, as well as celebrating romantic love, we can remember love of a more compassionate and universal kind.
Category: Compassion

Other people’s minds
Others are just like us. They want to be happy, just as we do.

Listening to your feelings
When we say ‘listen to your feelings’, what do we mean?

Is compassion a good source of motivation?
As a source of motivation, compassion has a number of advantages. But we also need to manage wisely our other motivations.

Love
This is an old and very simple poem, but it bears repeating. Love is not a thing you seek. It is a thing you give.

Listen to your own emotions, and negotiate
Our extreme emotions all have quieter counterparts, which help us. If we listen carefully to ourselves, then we can work out what these quiet emotions