Compassion

Compassion is literally to feel the suffering of others. This prevents doing harm and makes it a personal imperative to alleviate it.  It teaches and instructs us in lessons we might not otherwise have ever even contemplated. It makes us grow beyond our own walls and borders, to expand into something grander than we were before.

Compassion is also to give without thought of personal recompense – it is the nature of compassion. One can love and care for something completely unlovable, without thought of return, because one knows the inherent value that belongs to each individual: The world is always poorer for the loss of one and gains immeasurably from the addition of something new.

Motion of the Universe – Healing

Compassion holds the Universe together through it’s expression and is always in motion. That motion is always to push the life it holds within it further and forward, although at times it can seem to make us retrace our previous steps. However, when this happens we are being given the chance to learn once again the true nature of something, perhaps from a new and expanded perspective. In every case, the Universe’s purpose is to heal – to make us whole again. How well that occurs is dependent on our level of resistance. But sometimes the lesson is just that: Resist the reality that causes pain or unhappiness and seek the things which bring lightness to the soul.

When the Universe is delivering compassion to us it wants us to learn that we are creators of our little patch of reality. When we reach adulthood, this means understanding that we are responsible for the kind of life we find ourselves in – we have the capacity to say, “No more! I want something of my own choosing.” Compassion heals us even when we are beyond healing – it always reaches those who seek it. This is why it is vitally important to allow this flow within ourselves because we will be the first recipient of its healing waters. When we have received it, we become the crucible in which this medicine is made to overflow so that others may drink of it.