Tuesday, June 9, 2020
Today’s Gift from Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation is:.
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.— Dalai Lama
The word compassion means literally to suffer with someone. We normally use the word more broadly to mean empathize, or feel, with a person. Moving out of the prison of our own self-centeredness, we grow in the ability to see the world through the eyes of others. We grow wiser and more effective in our own lives because we aren’t limited to one outlook. We learn to forgive ourselves and suddenly we are much freer with our forgiveness of others.
There is a generosity of spirit in compassion, and the most generous attitude comes when we can act compassionately with someone we don’t especially like. Even though we may not choose a particular guy to be our best friend, we can accept and honor the hard times he has had, and we can put ourselves in his place to see what his challenges have been. Nothing is more admirable than a strong man acting generously and compassionately toward another human being.
Today, I will strive to be generous with compassion and to see the world as someone else sees it.
Hazelden Foundation
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