SELF-COMPASSION — Beware the stern, vociferous, insistent, internal critic. In my head, it sounds like me, but it is not me. If I said to another, even a fraction of the things I say incessently to myself, I would be arrested, or more likely, assaulted.

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My martial arts teacher, Sensei Wirth, turned the phrase: No this. No that. No delay.

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