Wednesday, February 4, 2009

The Need for Compassion


There are days darker than the night and there are nights in which the darkness seems that never ends. For this reason, we have to be aware of the need of solidarity towards everyone. But there is something important to consider, something that perhaps could be confused, the compassion is never pity. The compassion is a commitment of solidarity, fraternal understanding and unconditional Love. For example, a very dear person is hungry, thirsty, cold and you try to help, to attend to cooperate as a father to son , as a brother to another brother, as if he was somebody very close and it turns out that this someone is the whole humanity. It is not only one person, but all the persons. Therefore, Compassion does not have to do with the expressions of poor little one or what an unlucky person.
Compassion is to share with happiness, compassion is to teach, is to take care, is to preserve, and is to improve.
But if my actions and service are based on pity or sorrow, then we would have to call pitiful love to love and is not like that.We love and cooperate and do it because we are happy to give Love. And this makes us attentive, alert, vigilant and cautious. We will find in the category of compassion, the purest virtue, the united solidarity, while the discrimination, selfishness and preferences stay behind. What is important here is that is good, the respect, the opportunity and the service which are committed to give the best. What is the compensation ? The happiness of seeing a heart, a society, a universe. But the compassion goes beyond because constant compassion strengthens us, fills us, purifies us and truly shows the way of Love to our fellow beings and of course is the path to receive the grace of God. Nothing can develop if there is no compassion. It is synonymous of progress, of balance, of maturity, even of identity in the compassion. And life deserves that we give everything for compassion because there we discover the whole, that is to say, truth and compassion are not only limited to the man but they join us in the whole nature.
Compassion is to respect plants, animals, culture, the sensibility of others which can be unknown to us, but which makes us know that everything contributes to a collective , integral good.
How not to feel this commitment every day ? This even guide us because how not to cry with the one that cries? how not to laugh with the one that laughs ? How not to give our food and to share with the one in need whoever and wherever be ? Don't we all share the same house, the same home which are earth and life ?
Compassion becomes stronger, rises and stands up as a titan opposed to any injustice. And also compassion is humble, magnificent and generous.
What would happen to life without compassion ?
In synthesis the compassion is the practical, purest and most sacred science of Love.
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Author: Oscar Basurto Carbonell

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