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The Valkyrie asked a question on her blog. Does compassion have limits? Is it  measured by geography or limited to certain people? Limited to those closest to us and by definition, most like us. When I read Wayfarer his understanding of  compassion helped me to see compassion as the solution to a problem.

 

I don't know the answers. I know what they should be. But her post made me look at myself. It would be easy to try and blame politicians or examine the issue as if it is societal.

 

But it really is a spiritual question, and questions of the soul must be examined by the heart. So as I look into my heart I decided to look at what some people that are better qualified than I am, had to say.

 

Albert Einstein:

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

 

Arnold Schopenhauer:

Compassion is the basis of morality.

 

Benjamin Disraeli:

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

 

Bertrand Russell:

Three passions have governed my life:
The longings for love, the search for knowledge,
And unbearable pity for the suffering of [humankind].

Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness.
In the union of love I have seen
In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision
Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined.

With equal passion I have sought knowledge.
I have wished to understand the hearts of [people].
I have wished to know why the stars shine.

Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens,
But always pity brought me back to earth;
Cries of pain reverberated in my heart
Of children in famine, of victims tortured
And of old people left helpless.
I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot,
And I too suffer.

This has been my life; I found it worth living.

 

Edward Bulwer-Lytton:

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.

 

 

Felix Adler:

To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one's own, is ever the beginning of one's real ethical development.

 

George Washington Carver:

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.

 

HH the Dalai Lama:

Compassion is the radicalism of our time.

HH the Dalai Lama:

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

 

Keshavan Nair:

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

 

Martin Luther King, Jr.:

I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream -- a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few; a dream of a land where men will not argue that the color of a man's skin determines the content of his character; a dream of a nation where all our gifts and resources are held not for ourselves alone, but as instruments of service for the rest of humanity; the dream of a country where every man will respect the dignity and worth of the human personality.

Molleen Matsumura:

Reason guides our attempt to understand the world about us. Both reason and compassion guide our efforts to apply that knowledge ethically, to understand other people, and have ethical relationships with other people.

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Pema Chodron:

When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space.

 

Peter Singer:

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.

 

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

 

Sogyal Rinpoche:

...when we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings.

 

Spinoza:

Peace is not the absence of war; it is a virtue; a state of mind; a disposition for benevolence; confidence; and justice.

 

Thomas Aquinas:

I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it.

 

Thomas Jefferson:

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

 

Thomas Merton:

It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am the more affection I have for them…. Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.

 

Vaclav Havel:

Genuine politics -- even politics worthy of the name -- the only politics I am willing to devote myself to -- is simply a matter of serving those around us: serving the community and serving those who will come after us. Its deepest roots are moral because it is a responsibility expressed through action, to and for the whole.

 

Viktor Frankl:

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

 

The Hopi’s prophesy

“When the Earth has become sick and the fish and the Animals are dying - there will come fourth a tribe of people from all the nations, creeds and colors of the world, and they will put their faith in deeds, and not in words, to make the land green again, and to restore balance once again to our planet. These brothers and sisters shall come together to live again in Harmony with the Earth Mother, and speak of Love as being the Healer of the Children of the Earth, and they will learn to live again as Brothers and Sisters of the Earth. They will be called "Warriors of the Rainbow", protectors of the environment.”

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE INDIGO RAY, or the Blue Ones, have been on this planet for a while, but have not manifested in such great numbers for a very long time. There has always been a random sprinkling of Indigos in the population in all generations, but these people were fairly rare before the final third of the Twentieth Century.

 

Indigo was named and defined by Isaac Newton when he divided up the optical spectrum (which is a continuum of frequencies). He specifically named seven colors primarily to match the seven notes of a western major scale, because he believed sound and light were physically similar, but also to link colors with the (known) planets, days of the week, and other lists that had seven items.

Humans do not tend to recognize indigo as a separate hue category between blue and violet. For this reason, some commentators including Isaac Asimov have suggested that indigo should not be regarded as a color in its own right but merely as a shade of blue or violet. Color scientists typically divide the spectrum at about 450 nm between violet and blue, with no indigo.

Others continue to accept  it as one of Newton's named colors of the spectrum along with red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet.

 

I believe there are indigo children walking amongst us

Rainbow Warriors who refuse to fight each other

Rule breakers and peace makers

Returning to heal the world’s pain

I believe in the indigo children…..

A dream that doesn’t have to come true

To be real  

 

 

I know that somewhere in the darkness is a star, And that in the soul of every storm there lives a rainbow. I believe that it is through acceptance and forgiveness that we can heal. But sometimes this business of living and dying surrounded with so much anger and pain, is almost too much to bear.  I will pray for the lost children and their parents. I hope I never have to understand. Our children are our hearts. And there are many hearts that are broken tonight.

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