When You Have Learned Compassion

View All Problems As Challenges. Look Upon Negativities That Arise As Opportunities To Learn And To Grow. Don't Run From Them, Condemn Yourself, Or Bury Your Burden In Saintly Silence. You Have A Problem? Great. More Grist For The Mill. Rejoice, Dive In, And Investigate.

We Usually Do Not Look Into What Is Really There In Front Of Us. We See Life Through A Screen Of Thoughts And Concepts, And We Mistake Those Mental Objects For Reality. We Get So Caught Up In This Endless Thought-stream That Reality Flows By Unnoticed. We Spend Our Time Engrossed In Activity, Caught Up In An Eternal Flight From Pain And Unpleasantness. We Spend Our Energies Trying To Make Ourselves Feel Better, Trying To Bury Our Fears. We Are Endlessly Seeking Security. Meanwhile, The World Of Real Experience Flows By Untouched And Untasted.

No Matter How Hard You Pursue Pleasure And Success, There Are Times When You Fail. No Matter How Fast You Flee, There Are Times When Pain Catches Up With You.

Ignorance May Be Bliss, But It Does Not Lead To Liberation.

When You Have Learned Compassion For Yourself, Compassion For Others Is Automatic.