COMPASSION
It is easy to judge, characterize, separate, divide, label and distance ourselves from others. Different country, far away, out of sight, that’s their problem, they caused it, they’re weak. Reasons that we allow ourselves to turn a ” blind eye”. We have become a world of separation due to our inability to put another’s shoes on and walk in their path. Their path may have traveled entirely different than yours, but God imbued us all with the same range of emotions and sensations. We all bleed when we’re cut, and we all cry tears of sadness.
How soon we forget what we felt like, being criticized, ignored for one reason or another through our lives, and how deeply harsh words cling and ignorant glances tear. Through all of our “Evolvement”, how insensitive and impatient we have become to not only the world, but the universe that dwells within each individual.
Compassion is a merciful act that binds and unites us all as beings that feel pain, breath the same air, bath under the same sun and travel the same emotional highway. Compassion brings forth acts of kindness and refrains from judging in realizing, “I am you!”. Respectful and conscious approach to the sensitivity of others. A compassionate heart is filled with awareness outside of one’s own realm and feels sorrow for another’s sorrow and joy in bringing a smile to a stranger. Compassion looks into the eyes of another, and treats others as they themselves would want to be treated. Look, listen and acknowledge the pain and suffering that we all undergo in our humanness, nurturing our children, marriages and relationships with compassion inherently embraces peace and love. Living compassion brings freedom from regrets.
