by Marty Coleman | Feb 4, 2011 | Compassion - 2011, Thomas Aquinas |
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It’s pretty simple really. Compassion is like many other things, you might not be able to define it, but you know it when you see it. And you know it when you are doing it, and when you aren’t.
What keeps you from being compassionate?
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Quote by Thomas Aquinas, 1225 – 1274, Italian Dominican Priest of the Catholic Church
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by Marty Coleman | Feb 3, 2011 | Compassion - 2011, Elbert Hubbard |
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I tried a different style today, that’s why it looks a bit different and rough.
On a day when most of my city is still snowed in, I thought about how we want so badly to control the winter weather, the clouds, the rain and snowfall, the temperature, and we can do none of it.
But what we can control we have such a hard time doing. Kindness and compassion and understanding to our neighbor, assuming the best, helping out, befriending. Those are things that we can control. But do we? Or do we follow the path of least resistence. Now that we need paths shoveled for us, do we know our neighbors enough to ask for help or give it?
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Drawing by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily
Quote by Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer
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by Marty Coleman | Feb 2, 2011 | Compassion - 2011, Henry Ward Beecher |
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If you are in the position where you live with, deal with, suffer with, a person who is deep into addiction, sin, mental illness, depression or any other emotional/psychological/chemical trauma, you should have been able to tell by now that the simplistic anger leading to condemnation has really done nothing to help that person. It may seem like the way to proceed; it’s easy, feels good, feels morally right, but it isn’t and it won’t help that person, or you, in the long run.
Try compassion instead. That doesn’t mean you aren’t strong and it doesn’t mean you don’t hold them accountable. But you do it with love and understanding, not anger and self-righteousness.
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Quote by Henry Ward Beecher, 1813-1887, Congregationalist, clergyman, social reformer, abolitionist,and speaker. Very interesting guy, check his bio out when you get a chance.
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by Marty Coleman | Jan 31, 2011 | Compassion - 2011, Self |
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Can you show yourself compassion, or do you think you don’t deserve it? Why not?
If you are that person, I want to ask, do you ever find yourself able to show self-compassion? If so, when does it occur? How does it come about in your mind? What do you do when you feel it towards yourself?
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Drawing and questions by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily
Quote heard on NPR while still half asleep so I have no idea where it came from except that it was on a segment about Buddhism or something like that.
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