Compassion is loving understanding. It’s being able to extend Love, and know the Truth. It’s being able to hold the high watch for someone when they cannot do it for themselves. A Course in Miracles tells us that only the sane person can have compassion for the people who act in a crazy way.
In my experience, I have come across many people who are deluding themselves and living in fantasy. When the opportunity comes to move out of illusions and into Truth it so frightens them that they go into attack instead. For some people, it’s easier to attack and make a mess of a relationship than it is to simply be vulnerable enough to be transparent.
Many times, people don’t even know how they feel or what’s going on with them, and so they’re truly unable to say what they feel and think. Their not clear in their awareness. Clarity frightens them. Honesty is scary and intimidating.
In all these instances the greatest gift we can give is boundless compassion.
Love IS compassion.
Love is healing.
Love is truly helpful.
Sometimes being compassionate means saying no, stop, I don’t like that. Boundless compassion doesn’t mean being a doormat or letting people treat you badly. Letting people treat you poorly is a misguided, dysfunctional compassion that I’ve experienced so many times. I’ve had to learn that being dysfunctionally compassionate and allowing people to treat me badly makes for negative karma for both of us and that’s not what I’m interested in.
The hardest person for most people to be compassionate with is themselves, and yet it truly is the most valuable. When we cultivate Self-Love and Self-compassion then we’re going to bring benefit to all beings. When you live in a Self-compassionate, Self-loving way, you teach everyone around you how to improve their lives just by the choices that you make!
I encourage you to take a moment now and look for the areas of your life where you’re pushing yourself, berating yourself, not listening to yourself and see if you can increase your willingness to have compassion for yourself. This is a practice that will transform your life, heal your heart, mind and body. It will heal your whole life if you practice it deeply! Let’s do it together!
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