Notes on Compassion

LORD if I had a USD every time I said something passive-aggressive or downright MEAN to myself!  The funny (as in ironic/not LOL kind) thing about meditation is that I started noticing just how often that IS, and it's ANNOYING.  Over time, I'd bet it's downright DETRIMENTAL!  Perhaps even impacts my relationships with OTHER people!

Before I stopped being so angry with God, I still called this thing the "Jesus Principle," as in YOU (the proverbial) cannot help anyone who isn't willing to help themselves.  While forgiveness is not self-interested (at least not on God's part), it benefits the giver as much as (if not more than) the receiver.  The practice of forgiveness is fucking H A R D.  And forgiving oneself, in my experience, is hardEST.  Completing this process is F R E E I N G.

Paradoxes galore.  Soon as I level-up (okay, maybe 2), I might start resenting that old dingy self I used to be (HI, Shame), maybe people who reflect that version of me, and I get brazen.  Maybe I never awakened to edges snagging half-healed wounds of others, keep carrying on.  But I live and hopefully learn better lessons…

There is always More Compassion -

To have and to hold

To give and to take

To love and to make.

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