Daily Reflection
See the world as yourself.
Have faith in the way things are.
Love the world as your self; then you can care for all things.Tao Te Ching, 13 (translation by Stephen Mitchell)
Compassion from the eyes of the Tao is rooted in acceptance.
It is the choice not to resist, not to become fixated on those who wrong us or those who make us happy. It is seeing both the good and bad in others as temporary sates of being, states which we all share from time to time.
In observing nature, we come to see ourselves as a fundamental part of reality unfolding before us, instead of separate from it, looking on from the outside trying to force our will upon it.
And, like every ecosystem of nature, we all need each other, and we are all the part of the same organism. We are all existing in reality, balancing each other as we grow, live, love, and create.
And so it is in this mutual need, and in the acceptance of how things are that we find deep compassion not only …
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