Compassion is allowing your divine heart to become your compass. Instead of looking at your own past hurts and judgments you "...look through God's heart to influence your thoughts, feelings and perception." says Debbie, in The Consciousness Cleanse. Reality to you is different from my reality. We have different view points based upon our religion, race, social status, education, friends and family. Debbie says that compassion "...is the key to living outside the confines of the ego's limitations and having an expanded perception of reality." Compassion is what takes us out of the egotistical "me" state and into the "How can I serve the world?" state. In this state we are not hurt and we do not have fear because we have no need to protect ourselves because we know that God has a bigger plan than we can see. Lastly, Debbie states, that "A compassionate heart will lift you out of the pain and suffering of your own world, because it knows that everyone is doing the best they can, given their state of consciousness and the histories they're dragging behind them."
With compassion we can see that people are often limited to their past hurts and act out of their pain. I don't mean to yell at my boyfriend but when I do it's because of some past pain that I haven't dealt with or some false belief or expectation. I don't yell because I am deliberately an unkind person. It's now, looking through the divine heart, that we can begin to stop taking things so personally. Most likely someone's unkind actions toward you are not about you. I know I'm very sensitive to other people. Every time I think someone is mad at me they are not. Usually, it's something they are going through that has nothing to do with me. Let's begin with compassion because we don't know everyone's story.
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