When we live by compassion, nothing can harm us. When compassion pervades our being, there can be no right or wrong done to us, those concepts are meaningless, because everything is as it should be.
Have you ever met someone who, when they walked into the room, they brought the sun with them, and because of it, your heart was filled with warmth?
If we can live with compassion at the foremost of our lives, our words, our actions touch everyone around us.
Even the angry man, when faced with compassion, will become calmer.
With compassion everyone becomes our friend.
Once we truly recognize the interconnectedness of everything, we feel the same energies that run through us, through anger and beauty, through the earth – we are one, and if we harm others, we harm ourselves, and the rest of existence.
To live by compassion, we have as much compassion for ourselves as for others, and everything is done with right intention.
Strive for peace, peace in your heart. Listen, love, feel – be moved by life, yet with the balance of all things, removed.
Zen musings 