“Compassion is love and caring at its best”
Compassion is a profound human emotion prompted by the pain of others. More vigorous than empathy, the feeling commonly gives rise to an active desire to alleviate another’s suffering. It is often, though not inevitably, the key component in what manifests in the social context as altruism. In ethical terms, the various expressions down the ages of the so-called Golden Rule embody by implication the principle of compassion: Do to others what you would have them do to you. Ranked a great virtue in numerous philosophies, compassion is considered in all the major religious traditions as among the greatest of virtues. Read more at Wikipedia
Today I will meditate on my compassion that I show to others on a daily basis. I will ask that I show compassion to all beings equally and be earnest in how I practice on a daily basis. Am I lacking in the compassion I feel and show?
What kind of love are you feeling at any given moment depends on the things that your mind perceives as important to the moment. There are so many types of love and so many times we take for granted the things we truly love. We have devalued the meaning of love by using it as a way to hold on to our attachments and desires and using it loosely without knowing where it’s use starts and where it ends.
FEEL THE HEART
Don’t spend more time in your head then your heart. Compassion comes from our hearts, we feel it, know it and have no doubt in it. When we think too much we miss out on the true compassion for everything that can emerge.
It may be time to develop compassion. Practice makes perfect. Perfect compassion comes from the heart.
In relationships we have one type of love and although we love another is that a stronger love than that we have for our children? What about ourselves; how many times have we sold ourselves short, in our love of ourselves, putting aside what we love in ourselves for the love of another. We can look at true love as being selfless or as an extension of who we are. “ She is such a loving person.” or “He loves her so much.” are ways our love is viewed from others points of view, what counts is how we feel about loving or being a loving person. To have a love of life, nature, music, or another person only means something if we take time to enjoy that love.
LEARN
Our past and the way we use it to our advantage is about letting it go, First, of the negative outcomes by owning them and knowing that we did everything in our power to make them right. Second, embrace the thing we have done right and don’t let ourselves let them be the thing that defines who we are today. Last, learn from them both.
Doubt is both a product of fear and failure as a conditioned response or a justification to resist action. Our rationalization of fears that comes to us in doubting that things can be done or be a certain way, because of failures we have experienced in the past. Knowing that doubt is just a manifestation of these things can help us overcome or at least proceed in our actions with a little more caution than without it. If we have problems and or failures that are in the past that create doubt or that we identify ourselves by, we may need to look at the reasons for those feelings. In doing so, we need to look at the things we did do right even though we feel we failed at whatever it was that we were doing. All things have a bright side to them. At the very least we should see how we learned what we shouldn’t do in the future.
Today is a new day and I hope you all find things that make you all more of the person you want to be and ways to get the things you want in your lives.
If there is anything I can do or you need help contact me. I am here for you and we are all one.
“A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” Albert Einstein
Value love.
When we fall in love and feel that this is true love what changes when we are no longer in love with that person? Do we love them any less or did we really not love them as we thought we did? When our kids don’t live up to their true potential or our expectations, do we love them any less? Start putting value in the love you have, take time to enjoy the love you feel at any given moment. Tell the ones close to you, you love them, tomorrow may be too late.
