When we can learn to love ourselves during the act of development, so, too, we can learn to bring compassion to others – as they are also in various stages of growth. Other people, like you, are spotted with tender new psychological and spiritual tissue. We do not need to know what areas they are working on, so long as love and compassion are given; it is like water and sunshine over the entire soil of their being. It honors the passage of their life, no matter what stage they are in.