Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling
what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It's the knowledge that
there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy
finally for you too. [Frederick
Buechner]
I’ve often misunderstood my feelings about another. I have seen them as “good” or “bad” and even “right”
or “wrong.” But feeling with another, the willingness to BE in their darkness
or to stand in their Light, this is NOT as simple.
Be kind to people whether they deserve your kindness
or not. If your kindness reaches the deserving, good for you; if your kindness
reaches the undeserving, take joy in your compassion. [James
Fadiman, Essential
Sufism]
I want simplicity when it comes to others. I want ALWAYS to BE kind and compassionate, sounds
nicer than saying I want to BE kind to the kind and compassionate with the
compassionate. I can BEcome most indignant when I don’t “get my way” in such
things.
This truth is NOT very pretty. Still, it is my truth Today.
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a
beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs
restructuring. [Martin Luther King Jr]
This comes closest to what I really BElieve about
Compassion.
I love you, Currie
1 comment:
True compassion and understanding still comes hardest for me with people who think so completely differently than I do. Harder to put yourself in someone else's shoes when you wouldn't be caught dead in them--LOL! ;)
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