As you dwell more in loving awareness and see things as they truly are,
you begin to expand beyond the boundaries of your separateness. You
start to experience the outer world in a new way, so that instead of
being in relationship to someone else, you become them. At that moment,
the suffering of the universe is inside of you, not outside. True
compassion arises out of the plane of consciousness where I am you,
where you and I are one.
This is a Buddhist loving-kindness blessing, part of the Metta Meditation:
May all beings be free of danger.
May all beings be free from mental suffering.
May all beings be free from physical suffering.
May all beings know peace.
OM.
- Ram Dass -
