#compassionate insight

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No matter how dark the world becomes, we can always keep the light in our heart shining brightly, www.compassmethods.com. https://youtube.com/@compassionscompass-sb7jo?si=GegjxKPBAdPOyS4j

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May love, compassion, and sanity prevail, www.compassmethods.com. https://youtube.com/@compassionscompass-sb7jo?si=_zU_-cBK3UYbNcNc

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Moment by moment we build our future way of being with our thoughts, words, and actions. When we cultivate compassionate insight, we take care of ourselves and others, www.compassmethods.com. https://youtube.com/@compassionscompass-sb7jo?si=8WCXmwVCqnyr-NSf

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Educate the heart as well as the mind, www.compassmethods.com. https://youtube.com/@compassionscompass-sb7jo?si=mH34IwtCOTeaEPH1

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Compassionate insight brings inner abundance, www.compassmethods.com. https://youtube.com/@compassionscompass-sb7jo?si=1tXktWi2-LpB9Jd8

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When compassionate insight becomes steady, it becomes a source of refuge in difficult times, www.compassmethods.com. https://youtube.com/@compassionscompass-sb7jo?si=EzGOv-3kFzIWtFtO

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Compassionate insight helps us distinguish between what to pursue and what to leave behind, www.compassmethods.com. https://youtube.com/@compassionscompass-sb7jo?si=YZqSofm9viDctQ-W

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When leadership becomes cruel and destructive, compassionate insight offers people a positive way to resist and move forward, www.compassmethods.com. https://youtube.com/@compassionscompass-sb7jo?si=2l9B5_Cy8JAPoUXB

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Loving kindness is good for the heart, www.compassmethods.com. https://youtube.com/@compassionscompass-sb7jo?si=p65VrFQMAVNI59vl

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Happy Valentine’s Day! Transform with compassionate insight, www.compassmethods.com. https://youtube.com/@compassionscompass-sb7jo?si=nRit7OuNaxwcAVIu

[francesderwent]

thinking about snarky cultural/theological commentary and. the thing about snark is this: it’s easy, and it’s instant gratification. it’s easy because you’re playing to a likeminded audience. you get the way they think, you know the sort of things they find ridiculous, and so you know what’s going to play well with them. it’s not that hard to come up with a zinger that’s going to earn you applause from your own side. it’s also pretty easy to make another human being who’s not on your side look stupid, because we’re stupid creatures and we all have plenty of exploitable weak spots. it’s preaching to the choir, and it’s preaching meanly to the choir. and then, your snark bears all its fruit right away. you get the glowing feeling of having scored points against the enemy while being patted on the back by your friends for being so brave. if you succeeded in being snarky, you get the rewards of snark that very instant.

on the other hand, seeking to share the truth you possess in a mode in which it could actually be received—that is, says St Thomas, according to the mode of the recipient—that’s hard, and it’s so far from being instantly gratifying that you may never see the fruits of it in this life. not only are you not thinking about your likeminded audience, you’re not even going to trot out the truth simply in the way you understand it and call it your best effort. rather, you have to try to get inside your interlocutor’s frame of mind and understand how the truth you know is going to fulfill their own priorities and longings. you have to understand them so well that you see the truth of their position, even if that truth is buried very very deep, and then see how that truth connects them to the truth you see. you have to be insightful, and compassionate, and so, so patient. you don’t get to score any points, with anybody. your interlocutor might still get annoyed with you and turn around and make you look stupid. but you can’t just say “I’m going to speak the truth and I don’t care who hears and how they take it”—you have to care how they take it, because the truth is relational, it’s given and received, not just spouted into a void. and frankly you have to care how they take it because you have to care about their salvation.

don’t get me wrong, there are times in every person’s life when they will be called to stand up and be counted, to put fumbling words to what they hold most dear even if they can’t make everyone understand. but I don’t know that it’s a virtue to be always focused on being seen saying the truth, with no consideration given to who hears you and what they’ll hear in it—and it’s certainly not a virtue to be always focused on being seen saying the truth in a mean and funny way. “instruct the ignorant” is a spiritual work of mercy. but instruct the ignorant does not mean “instruct the ignorant while making the knowledgeable laugh and/or high five.”

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As the horizon darkens, keep love, compassion, empathy, and wisdom alive, www.compassmethods.com. https://youtube.com/@compassionscompass-sb7jo?si=rH9SoeyH1mlT--l9

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Loving kindness builds a courageous form of compassion, www.compassmethods.com. https://youtube.com/@compassionscompass-sb7jo?si=WfepN1kfm4GPj7RS

[thepersonalwords]

Our wings are small but the ripples of the heart are infinite.

Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations

[cuntstable]

its like if youre gonna use sa as a repeat Thing that happens in your story, thats more or less an inescabable thing for the characters (particularily women) in it then one would hope you as the author would have like something to say about the subject. like maybe a point to make about it or the lasting trauma of it or the process of recovering from it. if the characters it keeps happening to just sort of freak out and then move on OR their struggles with it are off screen while the actual assault was shown in full detail then idk. is it worth putting in there? death and hell on you as a writer

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Compassionate insight uses the present moment to build a better future for self and others, www.compassmethods.com. https://youtube.com/@compassionscompass-sb7jo?si=bIYce6Wt3k1iaWgj