Hello Friend! As a conscious person, you know compassion is one of the greatest healing energies on Earth.
The Dalai Lama has written multiple books on compassion. Pope Francis defined compassion as the “language of God.”
Amma, the hugging saint, has said, “Love and compassion for everyone should become as natural to us as breathing.”
So why does it sometimes feel exhausting?
Why is it that when you are regularly holding compassion for others in service… you can begin to feel compassion fatigue?
You might start thinking, “What’s wrong with me. Why can’t I seem to sustain compassion the way great spiritual teachers talk about it? Maybe I’m just not enlightened enough.”
I used to think something was wrong with me too.
You see, like most of us, I had been taught that compassion is empathy for the pain of others. And of course, it is.
But that’s usually as far as most teachings go. Even many compassionate spiritual teachers don’t explain how to sustain compassion without becoming depleted. |