Lion's Roar

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RADICAL COMPASSION

Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN

By Tara Brach

Viking 2019; 288 pp., $28 (cloth)

begins with a hospice worker observing that the greatest regret of the dying can be summed up as: “I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself.” is essentially a how-to manual for having that regret. Depending on the individual, being true to oneself manifests in different ways, including being honest and present, serving others and the world, and expressing one’s creativity or doing meaningful work. But however it manifests, the foundation

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