Compassion

Learning to Forgive ourselves is an incredibly important thing to begin expanding.

I have Compassion for Everyone, because I woke up and realized I needed to have Compassion for Myself. For that innocent child with the Huge Heart that I was, and through the craziness of this thing called life that we are all subject too, I let the Huge Heart dim and become the person I saw that everyone else wanted me to be. Does that sound like a familiar story, it should, it is the story of us all, at least through our beginnings of this walk on this planet.

Reviews

[Davidgeo]

Learning to forgive is not the same as learning to love yourself.

Self forgiveness means you are giving something up, you no longer fully own yourself, you are vilifying yourself to yourself then hanging that part of yourself. If you are allowing yourself to be accepted for the sake of others your compassion is fake and ego driven. You accept a certain amount of shame, guilt, or become a willing object of anger..... to be observed by someone else as something else (or to yourself as you pretend to be what you are not to feel better)

"become the person I saw that everyone else wanted me to be" Yeah.... that's what compassion is... becoming something others want you to be. Agreeable, amenable, and helpful without question. Ha... jokes on you in that instance.

Self love and self refinement have little to do with the kind of compassion and forgiveness you speak of here. The mother Theresa Ego... That's what learning to forgive 'yourself' is to me.... becoming someone/something else's reclamation project to engender warm feelings at any cost. (even if the cold only feels warm)

Your story is fatally flawed to me for this reason... you want to promote self forgiveness but then talk about "the person everyone wanted me to be" in a negative light. Hypocritical and circular logic.... this thing doesn't make sense.

To me it does not make sense, just to me. I'm sure all the other people who you are trying to appease find this story quite wonderful. You are a very important type to those folks... enabler.

You're logic may be s**t to me but at least you're writing about something worthwhile.

[Healing Star]

Thank you for taking a moment and share your feelings with me. I have not completely forgiven myself for allowing the controls that have been put in place to cause us to stop being the one I was when I was a little one. The bright eyes, the willing Heart, the joy of Living, the innocent child, the one who owned his power. But slowly as I work on being present in the Moment, out of my Mind, within my Heart, a step outside of Time, a little opens to me each time. Peace, it is time for Peace to find us within our Hearts and Manifest, I wake in the Dream of Peace, after a lifetime of War. In this World of War, I'll be your Peaceful Companion. Blessings Hans.

[Dolly]

Compassion is a wonderful thing, to live our lives and use it abundantly. WE all need to be compassionate. Our world would be so awesome to live in if we all took this one step. Nicely written, by the way.

[Healing Star]

thank you Dolly, yes, it will Be. Blessings

[Dolly]

you are welcome :)

[Coyote Poetry]

If we led with compassion, kindness and concern. Would be a better world. I liked and understood your thoughts. Thank you for sharing the amazing poetry.
Coyote

[Healing Star]

Thank's Coyote - what's inside of Me, is a little of what's inside of You :)

[Coyote Poetry]

We need 4 billion more and you are welcome.