Thoughts on Compassion

Have compassion for yourself, go easy on yourself, you are doing your best you don't need to be beating yourself up. You are so brave, and strong it takes so much courageousness on your part to go out and live your life the way you do. Understanding this about you is the beginning of wisdom. Understanding this about yourself opens the door to you understand that everyone, at any particular moment, is doing their best.

“So have compassion for yourself. You are courageous and good, and you deserve it” - Neale Donald Walsch

Not that you couldn't or shouldn't aim higher, compassion is about not judging yourself (or others) if you (or they) don't live up to expectations. It is about accepting ourselves and each other as we are. We grow and reach our potential one step at a time, become the person we choose to be one day at a time, try not to judge either yourself or others if you (or they) do not achieve everything in one big leap. Life is a process, a journey don’t be to hard on yourself is things don’t happen as fast as you would like.

Compassion gives us strength in the face of an apparent evil event or action, to see the perpetrators’ of such events and their actions in a new light. Not to condone such actions of course, but to look at that action from a new perspective and to understand that to those committing the action they “…did the right thing” or did what they “… had to do” (given their understanding of how life works).

Compassion knows a person may be acting from a place of hurt or emotional turmoil and are therefore doing the best they can in the circumstances and therefore will not judge. Most of us are so distracted by life; the world keeps us so busy, so it should be no surprise that people rarely fulfil their potential. Compassion knows this and so, with love, will give them (everyone) the freedom and opportunity to be all they can be.

Compassion is love expressed as an action; it has empathy for and shares the suffering of others. The compassionate response is always to end the suffering and pain of others and to do all it can to return them back to a state of wholeness. That, by the way, is the source of your desire to end your own pain or suffering, your soul has compassion for you too.

One last thought. Compassion will always do the right thing, acting from a place of non-judgment, love and understanding.

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Selected Wisdom Quotes - 3

Another helping of: Wisdom quotes from Facebook and Twitter posted by myself and friends. The quotes that are from those friends will have links included. Some of my own quotes will have comments included to amplify there meaning.

This post has been waiting a long time to be published so if those I quote don't remember saying these things, that's my fault for taking so long, that said enjoy!

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You can give two minuets to dream of tomorrow, to imagine your dreams coming true! Dream your dreams with faith, love & trust.

Your dreams are real, they exist. They reside in the infinite as potential just waiting for you to realise them, to experience and to live them. A dream is step 1 in the creation of your future.

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"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning."-Louis L'Amour

This thing called life is never finished, the journey in never over. You will always have more to see, more to be, more to experience and more you want to do.

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“Because, only Time is capable of understanding how great Love is.”– Author Unknown @Jason_Bournesm Jason's Spina Bifida Journey

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I know nothing with any certainty ~ But the sight of the stars makes me dream. ~Van Gogh @EarthLifeInst

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"God wants you to be happy. If Christians aren’t happy, then who would want to be a Christian?" – Randy Robison LIFE Today

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Your life and your health is not determined by your genes, but by what you do that will express them positively or negatively. That includes your beliefs about your life. @BobChoat

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It takes time to succeed because success is merely the natural reward of taking time to do anything well. ~ Joseph Ross via Sati Shankar

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You have the ability to know when to push and when to stop, listen to your gut, give whatever it is the "tummy test" and let it guide you.

You have all the wisdom you could ever need for this life residing inside you. That part of yourself called spirit, the part of you that knows and is connected to the divine, to God.

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"In the first grade, I already know the pattern of my life. I didn't know the living of it, but I knew the line.... From the first day in school until the day I graduated, everyone gave me one hundred plus in art. Well, where do you go in life? You go to the place where you got one hundred plus."-Louise Nevelson

Follow whatever it is that you have a real passion for, the thing you most enjoy. Do whatever it is that you are really good at, the thing that you have an obvious talent for and brings you the most joy. Fill your days with nothing else but that thing, it is who you are and why you are here.

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You are good enough, worthy enough, and lovable enough. Never forget that.

Your thoughts have been telling you lies about you. Your worth has nothing to do the external world, your, looks, job or possessions. It comes from your creator and your divine nature, you were created beautiful, perfect and without judgement.

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"Choose to take nothing for granted, & see yourself as a powerful loving healer of your life, and of your world" ~Unknown Via Dr. @LoriShemek

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I have learned over the past year to handle setbacks in life. After each initial "punch," I've become more & more adept at bouncing back.- Heidi Lynn Russell @lovemrthornton

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