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Monday, April 17, 2006

Compassion - Apr 17, 2006

Moonbeam said...
Today I am going to have patience with myself while practicing compassion.
Compassion - a deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering; the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it.

Yesterday I listened to the words of a Buddist Monk as he spoke of compassion and expanded on the meaning of compassion and the different levels of compassion. It really made me think, as the definition above states there is more to it than awareness and sympathy for another's suffering; the wanting to do something about it takes it to a whole new level. Where does it go when you take action on the desire to do something about it?

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