Compassion

“The cultivation of compassion is no longer a luxury, but a necessity, if our species is to survive.”

– The Dalai Lama

Compassion is sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others. To be compassionate means to empathize with someone suffering and capable to feel compelled to reduce the suffering.

Extending care is the love and compassion we feel for those we know and, even for the ones, we do not know. Approaching the world with a spirit of it is about lightening the suffering of all kinds. Be it humans or animals. Compassion contains the willingness to help others become free of their dilemmas and get over their woes.

Showing compassion towards others starts by showing it towards ourselves. We can do it by practising forgiveness. By accepting that no one is perfect and so we are also not perfect and by being gentle with ourself when we confront our shortcomings. By being mindful

All of us are born with the potential to be merciful, where we wish for others to be free of suffering and its roots. We can expand that capacity to bring unimaginable benefit to ourselves and others. But only a few have the power to forgive and forget.

Forgiveness is considered one of the six cardinal virtues in Hindu Dharma. The theological basis for forgiveness in Hindu Dharma is that a person who does not forgive carries luggage of reminiscences of the evil, of pessimistic emotions, of rage and unsolved emotions that influence their today as well as forever.

If there is no love, then you are unable to forgive someone, anyone. Love in you means you find the compassion, elegance and sympathy to forgive someone even if they don't care about what they've done at all. Thus there is no forgiveness without love. Forgiveness comes because of compassion and love.

It has reminded me of one of the saying my grannie always says. According to her, it requires our resentment to respond to someone else's offence. As an instance, if we envy to throw stones back at someone, we first have to soil our hands with mud.

The choicest way to commence developing compassion is to limit our scope to the people we confront in real life and online, and maybe some animals. Gradually, we train to elongate our compassion to accommodate everyone: those we like, strangers, antagonists and even animals.

Forgiveness metamorphoses anger and maltreated into healing and calmness. Forgiveness can accommodate you to subdue feelings of depression, nervousness, and rage, as well as peculiar and relational struggles. It is about creating a mindful firmness to let go of bitterness.

I would conclude by saying that we can heal the world today but we can begin with a voice of compassion, a heart of love, an act of kindness by Mary Davis.