Self-Compassion by Kristin Neff

Author:Kristin Neff
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2011-08-28T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

MOTIVATION AND PERSONAL GROWTH

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

—CARL ROGERS, On Becoming a Person

TWO OUTLAWS WERE SITTING IN THE SALOON WHEN ONE SAYS TO the other, “Have you seen Billy the Kid lately?”

“Yep. I had lunch with him the other day.”

“Oh?”

“Yep, I was riding my horse over the bridge into town, and there was Billy, with a gun, pointed at me. ‘Get down off yer horse,’ he says.

“What can I do? He has the gun, so I get down off the horse.

“Billy points at a pile of horse poop. ‘See the horse poop? Eat the horse poop.’

“What can I do? He has the gun. I eat the poop.

“Then Billy laughs; he laughs so hard he drops the gun. I grab it.

“‘Hey Billy,’ I say. ‘Now I have the gun. See the horse poop? Eat the horse poop.’

“What can he do? I have the gun. He eats the poop.

“So like I said, we had lunch together the other day.”

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