We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and holding on.
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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.
We have to bring the humanity and compassion back.
This idea of compassion comes to us because we're made in the image of God, who is ultimately the compassionate one.
When compassion wakes up in us, we find ourselves more willing to become vulnerable, to take the risk of entering the pain of others.
Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion - towards ourselves and towards all living beings.
Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.
Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. And compassion helps us as well.
Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.
As Christians, our compassion is simply a response to the love that God has already shown us.
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