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posted April 17, 2012 02:28 PM            

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Website; homepage: http://www.self-compassion.org/

Test how self-compassionate you are http://www.self-compassion.org/test-your-self-compassion-level.html

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"I'm a bit fracked up- it's a flaw in my personality". ~Gaius Baltar

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posted April 17, 2012 05:22 PM            

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Overall score: 2.87

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"The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind." — Friedrich Nietzsche

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posted April 17, 2012 06:58 PM            

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Cool test!
Overall score: 4.92

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posted April 18, 2012 01:38 AM            

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That's quite a good score, Lexigrammer. I thought that yours would be high though, because you one of the most compassionate people I've ever known!

Mine was on the low side, 2.22, hence the need for me to read this book!

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posted April 18, 2012 02:04 AM            

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From the book:

"What is this self inside us, this silent observer,
Severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us
And urge us on to futile activity,
And in the end, judge us still more severely
For the errors into which his own reproaches drove us?"

~T.S. Eliot, The Elder Statesman

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posted April 18, 2012 02:07 AM            

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The author is the mother of the boy in the documentary/ film, "The Horse Boy":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYkT_GndKtE

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posted April 19, 2012 04:16 AM            

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Those words by T S Eliot ought to have the power to heal me, but I still feel like like crap.

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posted April 24, 2012 03:56 PM            

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Self-Kindness: 2.20
Self-Judgment: 4.20
Common Humanity: 1.75
Isolation: 5.00
Mindfulness: 2.75
Over-Identification: 4.75
Overall score: 1.79

is there anyone who is worst than me?

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posted April 25, 2012 09:13 AM            

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Yes. I'm pretty horrible to myself.

Self-Kindness: 1.00
Self-Judgment: 4.40
Common Humanity: 2.25
Isolation: 4.75
Mindfulness: 2.25
Over-Identification: 4.75
Overall score: 1.60

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posted April 26, 2012 09:29 AM            

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This looks like a good book

Surprised by some of the answers here. Yin, I can't believe you're that hard on yourself! After seeing your fun taste in clothing, too. And listenstotrees, I thought from your screen name and posts that you would KNOW how cool you are! Love being Aries, I don't know you but I'm sorry to hear this.

My scores:

Self-Kindness: 2.40
Self-Judgment: 4.40
Common Humanity: 2.75
Isolation: 4.50
Mindfulness: 4.75
Over-Identification: 2.50
Overall score: 2.75

The higher mindfulness score is a recent development, and I owe it to Eckhart Tolle.

I think the low self-kindness comes from my strict Catholic upbringing, where everything I did or said was somehow "wrong." My parents were great and didn't mean for me to handle the religion this way; it's just my own turn of mind, as a Cap sun, to take things very seriously.

Thanks, listenstotrees.

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posted April 26, 2012 01:43 PM            

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Oh, I just like those clothes but am too afraid to wear them.

Lots of things happened in my life in the past few years and let's say I'm in a recovery mode. Some days are better than others. Thank you for your kindness, Faith.

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