THE COMPASSIONATE HEART
A person who does not feel compassion is a person who is not alive
with the seasons, alive with the planting, or alive with the reaping
of life’s wonders. To live life with an uncompassionate nature
is not to live life fully at all, but to skim the Earth and not really
feel the holy soil that we walk upon.
The higher ego must come into the compassionate heart, for to be compassionate
you must work on yourself and be spontaneous of heart. Opening your
heart may come from a moment of remembering: perhaps a memory that rides
high on the waves of your life, or for others who have had a life that
was filled with pain, a memory of that pain. You can become compassionate
simply because you don’t want others to go through what you went
through.
There is another, lesser kind of compassion called idiot compassion.
In this case, you really don’t want to go near it because it hurts
another person. We end up using this type of compassion to escape from
the truth. We fall into the illusion that we are being compassionate,
but all we are truly doing is enabling others.
You may be born with a compassionate heart, but it can become filled
with clouds of illusion. You put in your mind that you have just enough
compassion and love to do just enough with your day. You must understand
there is a huge amount of the flowing waters of compassion, and that
unless it is given away, it stagnates. Because the nature of a human
being is kindness and compassion, you turn on yourself when you don’t
express compassion toward others.
To have and practice compassion requires that you always speak to the
part of someone that is half-full. Never speak to the half-empty; be
aware of the half-empty, but never, ever speak to it.
Ma Jaya
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