Compassion is Loving Understanding

My life has been a research project about compassion. I discovered that I had very little compassion and I decided to change that because I didn’t like myself very much. I had no compassion for myself. I found that by developing compassion for others I could have some for myself AND the more compassion I had for myself, the more I had to share with others. Funny how it works that way.

Have you ever withheld love and compassion with an energy of spitefulness? I have. For many years I really thought that one of the main powers I had was withholding love, withholding compassion, withholding kindness. In my ignorance, I had no idea that this was creating massive amounts of distress in my life and heart.

So often spiritual students deny the effect that is caused by their choices. Like a little child throwing a temper tantrum grown adults will make spiteful, hurtful choices while ignoring the dissonance that the tantrum creates. Compassion is loving understanding – being able to have self-compassion is profoundly healing.

Sometimes there’s a sense that it would be great if there were no consequences to our thoughts and choices. If that were true we would be stuck in ignorance. Let’s be grateful that we can’t make hurtful choices and not experience the hurt.

How do you move out of this childishness and ignorance? Compassion. In Truth, your heart contains boundless compassion. As soon as you are ready to have more peace, more harmony and more joy, the attraction of compassion will become clear to you. What a blessing!

Compassion is Love.
Love is the healer.
I know – I proved it.
My life has healed so much – and the healing continues!

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Almost every day people are joining my year-long Masterful Living Course. Part of what Masterful Living is all about is cultivating the ability to have real compassion and discover that loving compassion changes your whole life. It works! And it’s FUN to do it together, in community, with mighty companionship!