Compassion, Dali Llama, Songs, hearts, Children, Families

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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ~ The Dalai Lama

Compassion: Deep awareness of the needs of another coupled with the wish to help. Caring for others especially those who suffer with actions to understand and/or to help.

Compassion is deep Caring:

Caring: Feeling or showing care and compassion for other people, taking care of self, others, environment.

care

It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice. ~ Author Unknown
Care

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. ~ Leo Buscaglia

Using Cooperation is often part of Compassion:

Cooperation:
The act or practice of cooperating ~
working together
The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.
~ Henry Boye
Reaching

Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there. ~ Virginia Burden

Compassion often calls Courage a Companion:

Courage:
the ability to face danger, pain or fear with bravery. Also, to act according to one's beliefs.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
~Ambrose Redmoon
Curageous Compassion!

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.
~Mary Anne Radmacher

Planting Seeds of Cs ...
Practicing compassion requires caring, cooperation, and often courage. Plant these seeds in your garden of kindness that blooms in your heart. Start small; a smile is sunshine, a kind word the rain, your willingness to help is the soil of Love within you that grows all things great and small. The seeds we sow create a garden of goodness ... we can plant our planet...

For their sake he remembered his covenant, and showed compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love. ~ Psalms 106
Dove Flies
Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light.
~ Norman B. Rice
Reaching
open
Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
~ Thomas Merton
Feeding the hungry!
I try to treat whoever I meet as an old friend. This gives me a genuine feeling of happiness. It is the practice of compassion. ~ H.H. the Dalai Lama
Circle
Compassion is not sentiment but is making justice and doing works of mercy. Compassion is not a moral commandment but a flow and overflow of the fullest human and divine energies. ~ Matthew Fox
Care

Affirmation Of Compassion:
I am centered in compassion; I hear, see,
& feel from someone else's point of view!

Compassion is truly caring for others ~ feeling sorry for their suffering & wanting to try to help them feel/be better. To develop & practice compassion, look for ways to make someone else's life better. Here's a few ideas:
Help with chores at your house or your neighbor's
Choose kind words especially when you feel angry
When you do feel angry, see if you can shift to a feeling of love & acceptance of yourself & others
Help people in your community or anywhere in the world who need food, clothing, etc ~ donate money or things you can't use like your old clothes.
Visit with old or sick people who may be lonely;
Bring your pet when you visit to cheer someone up!

Visit our Kindness page:
Also check out our song, Every Little Thing!

His Holiness, The Dali Llama speaks on
Compassion:

Read the Dali Llama's message of compassion: http://www.dalailama.com/messages/compassion
Also visit Charter For Compassion:
http://charterforcompassion.org/
Spirit Sing!

Plant Our Planet Video:

Always Love Video:

The Adventures of Joy Boy & The World Peace Family
C2009 Laurie Story & Jeremiah Vela
Caring, Cooperation, Courage, Compassion
shine God gathered The World Peace Family and told them to plant Cs ... So they did ...

Seeds of Caring ...

Seeds of Cooperation ...
FireFather

Seeds of Courage ... JoyBoy

Seeds of Compassion ...

Affirm: I am planting seeds of Compassion;
I hear, see, feel from someone else's point of view!

Play: Plant Seeds Of Compassion!
Look at all beings & things through the eyes of compassion today; see if you can see & feel from another's point of view~put yourself in their place!

Pray: Thank You, Mother/Father/God for your gift of life equally present in all. I open my heart to You & pray to see with Your eyes, feel with Your heart, reaching out to others with Your Love.