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As I was walking Madrid the other night I passed nearby a shop of religious images. It was closed and without any light. Streetlights lightened this virgin graciously, as if she wanted to say something. And she did... She told me about compassion, told me we are never alone, that we are always loved.
The way she offers a hug of Light touched my heart.
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Mani Korlo contains prayer wheels with trillions of prayers evoking Compassion, Wisdom and Sacred Energy. At Tibetan Mongolian Monastery in Bloomington IN.
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"You don't peace with your friends. You make peace with your enemies."
- Rula Ghani
or 'Tyrion Lannister' (Peter Dinklage) in 'Game of Thrones'.
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Compassion.
Exposition (MAS, Antwerp, Belgium).
St. Elisabeth of Hungary cares for the sick by Jan de Caumont (1600-1650).
A Couple, when they met just 30 days before the marriage on an outing outskirt of Dhaka City, at an Historic Place in Bangladesh.
A moment of self-compassion can change your entire day. A string of such moments can change the course of your life. ~ Christopher Germer
For today's Self Portrait Sunday theme "Compassion".
Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.
A street beggar in front of a Hindu Temple. Taken at Sitakunda, Bangladesh.
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Found in a Jain Temple in the city of Bhuj
Kutch, India
March 2007
Copyright © 2007 David Pohl
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Compassion asks us to go where it hurts,
to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish.
Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely,
to weep with those in tears.
Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable,
and powerless with the powerless.
Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.
~ Henri J.M. Nouwen
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“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.”
Albert Einstein
Why is compassion not part of the established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? Compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, humility - these are the foundation of any real civilization, no longer the prerogatives, the preserves of any one church, but belonging to everyone, every child in every home in every school.
~Yehudi Menhuin
This is been quite the awful week in Davis. On Thursday last week, David Breaux, who was known as the compassion Guy in Davis and would stand on this corner offering to talk about compassion, was found murdered in Central Park across the street. He was 50. A decade ago he played a role in making this bench, the Compassion Bench, on the corner of 3rd and C. A vigil was held for him last Sunday evening, but that was affected by the fact there was another murder, another awful stabbing, the night before at another Davis park. Karim Abou Najm, a 20 year old student a month away from graduating, was killed in Sycamore Park as he was coming back from an undergrad awards ceremony. A witness who came to help the victim saw the killer get away. So the Davis community has been in a state of shock since. Then on Monday night, our phones all went off with a police alert that there had been another stabbing, this time at a homeless camp on the corner of 2nd and L, a woman named Kimberlee Guillory was attacked and hospitalized but thankfully did not die, after some of her neighbours chased the perp away. Massive police hunt, FBI, and the community pulling together, and a suspect was taken in on Wednesday, and formally arrested Thursday. He was a 21 year old who had been a UCD student until two days before the first killing (sounds like he'd been expelled). The town breathed a sigh of relief but everyone is still sad and exhausted, and mourning the loss of two good people.
On Wednesday, with the police and community still hunting for the killer, I went down to Compassion Corner downtown to see the floral tribute for David Breaux. There were news reporters there talking to people who knew him, people leaving notes, or just stopping by and thinking. I have passed by this bench so many times, but never sketched it, never stopped to talk to David myself.
The Davis Enterprise has been doing some sterling reporting on the events. You can read more here: www.davisenterprise.com/news/local/breaking-suspect-21-ar...
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.
- Albert Schweitzer
From a stained glass panel by Louis Comfort Tiffany, depicting the Old Testament story of Hagar and Ishmael cast out into the wilderness.
The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art houses the world's most comprehensive collection of the works of Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933) including Tiffany jewelry, pottery, paintings, art glass, leaded-glass windows, lamps, and the chapel interior he designed for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The Museum's holdings include a major collection of American art pottery and representative collections of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century American paintings, graphics, and decorative arts.
Each year, on the first Thursday of December, the Morse Museum helps launch the holiday season in Winter Park (Florida) when it lights up Tiffany windows in Central Park and presents the Bach Festival Choir, Youth Choir, and Brass Ensemble in concert. This December is the 30th annual celebration of Christmas in the Park.
“The dew of compassion is a tear.”
~Lord Byron
Off to school now.. I'll visit your streams later. Cheers!
The definition of compassion is the ability to understand the emotional state of another person or oneself. Often confused with empathy, compassion has the added element of having a desire to alleviate or reduce the suffering of another.
I have met many compassionate people in my lifetime. They are humble and good and follow their heart because they believe they CAN make a difference in the lives of others... be it people or animals.
One such person is my kindred spirit ANN (Annmaxine). Ann and some of her friends will be traveling from their homes in Australia to help orphaned children in Africa next month. They will be gone from their families for a month. Through love and faith and effort, they will try to make a difference. I know they will succeed!
So many of us have empathy for those less fortunate.... but few of us actually DO something about it. Ann and her friends do not do this to bring attention to themselves, but because it's the right thing to do. They are pure of heart. I really admire those that sacrifice their time to make this world a bit better... even if it's one person at a time. People like Ann and her friends give HOPE to humanity and I want to thank them for this.
The dome at the base represents the entire world. When a person awakes (represented by eyes of wisdom and compassion) from the bonds of the world, the person reaches the state of enlightenment.
"Mindful Compassion" [22/52]
Being kind and taking the high road is a choice. When you're faced with adversity, always take the time to be kind even if someone is tearing you down. The last few months have been really trying for me and I've been upset, angry, disappointed, hurt, etc. I always take the time to think before I speak and in one of the most aggravating situations I've been involved in for a while... I chose to be nice. I chose to not stoop to lower levels and to keep my soul glowing with love. Pick your battles wisely and know that life isn't always about if you're right or not... sometimes you just have to suck it up and move on. There is no point in wasting energy, time, and emotions on things that will never change or things that are only negitivity in your life.
Always choose to be kind.