Love and Compassion

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Dear Ones,

This Amma quote is in the latest Amritavani and I like it so much I

wanted to send it, if you've already read it, I apologize. Below it I've

pasted a poem by John Greenleaf Whittier that seems to go with it. These both

came in via e-mail today so it seemed like a theme. Peace, Amalia

 

"My Children, try to be a real human being. Try to feel the suffering of

others. You are not a machine or an animal or a demon. You are a human being.

You represent the human race. So try to be loving and compassionate, because

those are the signs of an evolved life. Remember, only a human being can

develop compassion and empathise with others. You may think, "If they are

suffering, it is their karma." But thinking about their karma is none of your

business. If it is their karma to suffer, consider it your karma to help

them. Only by helping others will you evolve. No other species receives this

precious gift from God: the ability to understand and be compassionate.

Utilise it!"

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O brother man, fold to thy heart thy brother;

where pity dwells, the peace of God is there;

to worship rightly is to love each other,

each smile a hymn, each kindly deed a prayer.

 

For he whom Jesus loved has truly spoken:

the holier worship which He deigns to bless

restores the lost, and binds the spirit broken,

and feeds the widow and the fatherless.

 

Follow with reverent steps the great example

of him whose holy work was doing good;

so shall the wide earth seem our Father's temple,

each loving life a psalm of gratitude.

 

Then shall all shackles fall; the stormy clangor

of wild war music o'er the earth shall cease;

love shall tread out the baleful fire of anger,

and in its ashes plant the tree of peace.