You can only connect with others as deeply as you've connected with yourself. Meeting your own difficult emotions instead of fighting them lets you hold space for that part of yourself and become a compassionate presence for others.
People can only meet you as deeply as they have met themselves. A great practice is learning to meet yourself in your difficult feelings. And when you do that, two things happen. You hold space for that part of yourself. You start to learn to work with your emotions rather than against them, and you give yourself space to be a human. And the other thing that's great is when you can do that, you can also be that space for other people. So there's this quote that people can only meet you as deeply as they met themselves. And I can tell you, over the years, that quote has proven true over and over and over again.
