You don't have to throw yourself away

Today, I finished reading the book, The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion, by Christopher K. Germer. I feel quiet, with inner things, and not like writing much. However, I'd like to share with you a quote that Christopher includes near the end of the book. The quote is written by Pema Chodron, in her book, The Wisdom of No Escape and The Path of Loving Kindness:

...we can still be crazy after all these years. We can still be angry after all these years. We can still be jealous or full of feelings of unworthiness. The point is...not to try to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already. 

The invitation over and over again is to be with feelings of pain, rather than to reject, obscure, flee, or fight them, to be with ourselves, to befriend ourselves.