Friday, February 3, 2011
Today's Gift
Compassion is ... a spirituality and a way of living and
walking through life. It is the way we treat all there is in life - ourselves,
our bodies, our imaginations and dreams, our neighbors, our enemies...
Compassion is a spirituality as if creation mattered. It is treating all
creation as holy and as divine... which is what it is. —Matthew Fox
In our search for growth, serenity, and contentment, we can start at a very practical level. Simply treat ourselves, inside and out, and everything around us in a respectful and caring way. Many men have not learned how to do that. Some of us have learned to accept abuse and pain, or to be tough and abusive.
From Touchstones: A Book of Daily Meditations for Men©
Read more Daily Motivations at http://thework-in.blogspot.com
In our search for growth, serenity, and contentment, we can start at a very practical level. Simply treat ourselves, inside and out, and everything around us in a respectful and caring way. Many men have not learned how to do that. Some of us have learned to accept abuse and pain, or to be tough and abusive.
We can learn about being in a
healthy relationship, about befriending ourselves and others and all of
creation. With practice, we will learn more and more about having compassion. As
we do, our self-centeredness and our self-pity will fall away.
Today, I will be compassionate toward each of the details of creation, and practice acceptance both within and outside myself.
Today, I will be compassionate toward each of the details of creation, and practice acceptance both within and outside myself.
Read more Daily Motivations at http://thework-in.blogspot.com
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