Ever since I was a child, I have suffered from bouts of OCD, anxiety and clinical depression. In 1988, I started practicing meditation. It helped a great deal and, in 1995 I started a meditation group to teach others the benefits of meditation. While my practice was very helpful, I still occasionally had depressions. The last one, in 2006, was different in that I had the sense that I was not the only one suffering - in fact there were millions of others suffering and, as soon as I shifted my mind-state outward and started sending out thoughts of love & compassion to all sentient beings, the darkness finally lifted and my heart was filled with peace and light. I have since set up a website of my experiences and the path I took out of the darkness - www.pathofthelotus.org. May all beings be free from suffering. May all beings know compassion, understanding and peace.
Q: When you have you been able to help yourself by helping others?
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compassion starts in your own heart, with your own creator, and through it it will shine outward into the community and beond, it will be like a beacon, shining the way for others to follow suit. Compassion starts by letting yourself be fully 'alive', to live beond expectations of 'norm', to be brave enough to let yourself plunge into the adventure of life.
Help yourself, and you show others how to do so too, and together compassion is but a way of life in thinking big, caring for all, but with little need to foster the ego, as it would not be needed that much longer, for it would have all it needs already.
I am sharing joy of compassion in all my thoughts and actions.
People seem therefore very aproachable and instantly open to have intimate deep exchanges of wisdom and love.
My strength comes form having connected to the most intimate part of my soul and thus having gained understanding and purpose of why I'm here, the responsibility as much of the grace to have been given a purpose and a conscious awareness of the priviledge, love and creation all around and within me. I have been gifted with the most precious priviledge, the understanding that I count and that all and everything around me is counting too, this has given me clear understanding that all is interconnected into a fabric that together can serve many purposes, that it is stronger than individual threads, but that it needs strong individuals to make a strong thread for a strong fabric....wonderfully simple yet so wonderfully complex...beond words and understanding indeed! We are co-creating a creation that we ourselves have no vision of, but a deep urge drives us to do just as we should....
It is a most beautiful world and we create the beauty within, through our Energy and compassion for each other!
Thanks for letting me share my compassion!
I am sharing joy of compassion in all my thoughts and actions.
People seem therefore very aproachable and instantly open to have intimate deep exchanges of wisdom and love.
My strength comes form having connected to the most intimate part of my soul and thus having gained understanding and purpose of why I'm here, the responsibility as much of the grace to have been given a purpose and a conscious awareness of the priviledge, love and creation all around and within me. I have been gifted with the most precious priviledge, the understanding that I count and that all and everything around me is counting too, this has given me clear understanding that all is interconnected into a fabric that together can serve many purposes, that it is stronger than individual threads, but that it needs strong individuals to make a strong thread for a strong fabric....wonderfully simple yet so wonderfully complex...beond words and understanding indeed! We are co-creating a creation that we ourselves have no vision of, but a deep urge drives us to do just as we should....
It is a most beautiful world and we create the beauty within, through our Energy and compassion for each other!
Thanks for letting me share my compassion!
