A compassionate mind is very difficult to cultivate because compassion demands a sense of equality between all living beings.
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It is sometimes difficult to view compassion and loving kindness as the strengths they are.
Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place.
The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.
It's hard to practice compassion when we're struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.
Compassion is contempt with a human face.
Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.
This idea of compassion comes to us because we're made in the image of God, who is ultimately the compassionate one.
Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.
You need not search for the compassionate mind from outside. To know yourself, to know your nature, your mind will automatically be the compassionate one.