Reflections about Learning Compassion

“with piercing empathic pain” – I could literally write a novel based on that line alone. We are experiencing the implosion of our greater global civilization that began tens of thousands of years ago, and not just local implosions. Nature/Life is pushing us to become empathetic beings, the wherewithal is within all of us individually and we are approaching what I have called “the final crossroads” where we choose compassion as our new way of interaction or we choose death in narcissistic decadence. The “powers” are pushing us towards death and so far we are, as a civilization, going along with it because it is the old tried and “true” downhill slide. If we were to choose compassion as a way of life we would then awaken our sense of empathy and as you say, we would feel all the pain others (all life) must experience to sustain our habits, lusts, greeds. At this point, as a civilization, the vast majority is choosing death because they fail to see it as such. Many believe that a bit of tweaking here and there, switching formulas on how our consumer lusts are satisfied, will do the trick. It will not. We need to change our individual ways. Our corrupt “leaders” are not the problem, they are the symptom, the symbol of our own individual decadence and lack of will power to change, to really change.

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