When you feel bad, treat yourself like you have…
Page 194. When you feel bad, treat yourself like you have a virus, rather than assuming that your unpleasant feeling means something personal. Your feeling might just be noise. You might just need some sleep.
— from Who Is Flying (Self, Nature & Nurture)
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It is the willingness, when you fall short, to treat yourself as you would a sick child rather than a criminal: the freeing rule that you may say I did a bad thing but never I am bad. When you feel awful, treat it like a passing virus to recover from, not proof that your core is rotten. The pilot who can be both honest and kind with himself in the storm is the one who keeps flying. — Who Is Flying (Self, Nature & Nurture)
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