What is compassion? Recognizing that you and I are related.
We may never know those whom we are here to help, but we are here for them just the same.
Anti-Dolphin Killing Campaigns are finding success:
http://savejapandolphins.org/blog/post/no-dolphins-killed-in-the-solomon-islands
http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/news/70-dolphins-to-swim-free-thanks-to-famous-rescuer/431226
Sociopaths, murderers, con-men, sadists, and bystanders before violence are all part of the same cosmic body as heroes, rescuers, protectors, saints, and gentle souls. We are all on the same path, only some of us perhaps further along than others. When we punish evil, which we must–often harshly–we need to remember to have compassion for all human beings, no matter how rotted and degraded they are. They are our family; they are us. That is a form of wholeness: to be able to condemn (sometimes to kill to protect the lives of others or our own) while also acknowledging our common humanity and shared divine spirit.
At least this is one victory and another indication that there is a little space for humaneness in the human heart. There is also increasing evidence for a growing inventory of unsold dolphin and whale meat in Japan, with Japanese consumers increasingly refusing to buy and eat this meat.
Compassion also means having compassion for those who don’t have much compassion.
Every feeling carries with it the faint echo of its opposite: love-hate, courage-fear, compassion-anger. We always have the choice of transforming one into the other.
Heartlessness eventually and inevitably leads to self-destruction. (Ex 7:14)
We all have wounds we carry around with us. Awareness of this should make us much more compassionate to one another.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P65XdTlk4vA
The internet as a verb: self-creating, transformative, and spreading kindness (via Nelson French).
The most magnificent buildings and career accomplishments pale in significance before a smile, a hug, kindness, love, learning, wisdom.
http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/05/20/4315193-dalai-lama-21st-century-will-be-much-happier
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