SEED QUESTIONS FOR REFLECTION: What do you understand by aligning compassion with wisdom? Can you share a personal experience of a time you felt prompted to "do it now" and not postpone your act of service? What does asking the trees and the wind (and watching the sun) to find out how you're doing mean to you?
delayed justice is no justice. hence whenever we come in touch with some problem we should face it with facts and do our full efforts to sort it out there and then only.
I guess when you are able to see the difference between 'needs' and 'wants', and yet, not differentiate them, is when you begin to celebrate life. When you do not take a liking to your 'needs', they start weighing you down but you still have to do it (dragging your feet). When they become your 'want', you would 'do it now'. You then start appreciating the finer things in life. Easy to preach, hard to practice. As a quadriplegic, that seems to be the way of life! I look forward to live and not just exist.
Of course it proves the obvious: there are no accidents. We create, promote, and/or allow all that happens to us. Out god-given directive to us all (especially with our capacity for thought and feeling and perception although augmented by our self-created equipment like microscopes, etc.) is to learn! And more: to actualize the learning bringing us ever closer to The Creator. Not dwelling unproductively on yesterday or fantasizing unrealistically on the future. I must be now.
I believe this is down-to-earth thoughts and advice. What better way then to get to it. If you wait hon..you may miss the boat. You can either be a duck that quacks a lot and doesn't get too much particular things done thus it is better to be an eagle that soars around looking for something to eat, and then attacks it right away. When you are an eagle I believe you can be that "special person" who searches for the "common sense and learns more and more what to do in life- positively too.
This is a beautiful piece, must appreciated by those of us who need to stop and ask how we are doing in this world. I send thoughts of love and compassion and healing. This accident serves a purpose in the grand scheme of things but it takes a special person to recognize and acknowledge it. Be well, be healed.
I'm intrigued by the idea that there is an objective good that needs to be done - presumably some sort of painful therapy or even routines that need effort - which is good for the receiver while being unwelcome. Perhaps wisdom is figuring out a compassionate way to deliver necessary truth. Whatever form that truth needs to take.. Hadn't thought of it in this way, yet the potential for application is very wide.
Very interesting. I believe in being spontaneous and not postponing acts of service. I don't very often act on it however. Just watching the sun set helps me simply just be. When I know I am being present in an integrated manner, I am peaceful. When I am following moderation in all things I move toward peacefulness. Being in the present is doing it now. When one is paying attention to what is happening as it is happening in and around one, one is probably compassionate, patient, and wise. Thank you for the opportunity to respond. Warm and kind regards to everyone