Circle of Compassion: Meditations for Caring for Self and the World

By Gail Straub

Learn to nurture yourself as you nurture others, develop greater compassion and self-confidence, and strike the perfect balance between caring for yourself and caring for your world. The companion to the best selling The Rhythm of Compassion, this pocketsize book of meditations is divided into four parts that provide practical exercises and affirmations to help you find balance in your life. These four sections include:

• Learning to Follow Your Rhythm of Compassion

• The In-Breath: Caring for Self

• The Out-Breath: Caring for the World

• Harmony with Your Rhythm of Compassion.

Empowering, enlightening, and most of all inspiring, Straub’s new book is sure to help you find balance both in your work and in your life. This series of meditations provides ongoing exercise for getting to the root of healing, developing compassion and putting compassion into action — to heal ourselves, others and the world around us.

“This is a book of great authenticity, practicality, and heart.”
— Sharon Salzberg, author, “Loving Kindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happines”

“Deep as the ocean, penetrating as the wind, purifying as fire, practical as earth. Gail Straub’s book is a gift of spirit. A simple and thorough guide to digging back through the layers of life, it helps deliver the reader to the deep well of compassion that dwells within every human heart. What is found within can then be given back to the larger circle of life as love and service.”
— Joan Borysenko, author, “Seven Paths to God: The Ways of the Mystic”

“May the message of this graceful book take hold in self and society now–in the present generation–and at this great turning of the millennial wheel.”
— Matthew Fox, author, “Original Blessing,” and “The Reinvention of Work”

“Gail Straub’s clear-eyed compassion is grounded in years of both spiritual practice and social action. Defying our tendency to separate the soul’s longings for self-growth and social justice, Gail poignantly demonstrates the truth the heart has always known: that true self-care takes us deeper into the world and caring for the world takes us deeper into the essential self.”
— Oriah Mountain Dreamer, author, “The Invitation”