Tag: compassion
Would you like more compassion, unconditional love, forgiveness, generosity and healing in your life?
Within us, we have all we need. Sometimes though it’s nice to have an ally, a confident, a kindred spirit or one that just knows us and can connect on a higher level.
We help others by being the best version of ourself as possible. So grab a stone or look at pictures of ones and “love up” on yourself.
As we connect with a clean crystal (one discharged of negative energy) we aid not only ourselves but each other. Our consciousness attunes to the crystal and vice versa. It’s a subtle concept, yet enormous in character and potential. Our subtle nature supersedes words. It is this subtlety that heals, completes and shows our wholeness within ourself as well our union with all that is.
We don’t need to change. We don’t need to improve anything. We practice deep compassion as we extend this same privilege to other people and things around us and allow them to simply be, especially those things that would easily turn our hearts bitter. As we practice yoga and meditation, we cultivate and practice being. […]
Master this one life lesson: allowance, not resistance. Our expectations and interpretations would then not disappoint, but freed for exploration, learning and letting go.
A new study of early humans has challenged one of the main tenets of Darwin’s evolutionary theory, the idea of the survival of the fittest, by suggesting compassion and the ability to accommodate “defective” members of the community actually played a significant role in how humans developed.
To have strong, hot passion — in whatever we endeavor to do — is the delectability of living this life. And, o be able to laugh at our fragile mortality and existential situations is pure magic and can be one of the most important exercises in our daily routine. But the two things I think are paramount to living the life extraordinaire are to have a limitless supply of what the Dalai Lama calls necessities of life…
Throughout his life, Thupten Jinpa (the Dalai Lama’s primary English translator) has studied the connections between science and compassion. In his latest book, A Fearless Heart (https://goo.gl/5Ysblw), Jinpa builds off a landmark lecture given at Stanford Medical School to explain how we can take a scientific approach to train our compassion muscle to relieve stress, fight depression, improve our health, achieve our goals, and change our world.
Being of service doesn’t have to include the big gestures you might be thinking about. You don’t have to quit your job and give up your life to join volunteers in a far-off area to help disaster victims, or donate your life savings to charity. You don’t have to work at a food bank or with at-risk teens, unless you want to. Being of service is not only about what you do, but also about how you do it. True service means that you are doing what you are meant to do, and doing it with compassion and love.
