Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is sometimes difficult to view compassion and loving kindness as the strengths they are.
But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.
Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.
When we're looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.
God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.
It's hard to practice compassion when we're struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.
A compassionate mind is very difficult to cultivate because compassion demands a sense of equality between all living beings.
The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.
It's easy when you've had difficulty or strife in your life to look at other people who seem like they've had it easier. But the thing we forget is that it is all relative, and each person's experience is uniquely their own, so that the worst thing they may be going through is truly the worst thing for them... it's just about having compassion.
Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.