compassion doesn’t need doing
We do-gooders think quite a bit about compassion. We want to have it, feel it and share it. There is so much we think we need to do to make the world a better place. But compassion doesn’t need doing. It exists already in the harmony of things just the way they are. Discord comes from our doing.
Compassion comes from undoing. It greets us when we undo our boundaries and erase the lines we said we’d never cross.
Compassion waits in the space between us, the space that only seems to separate us; a gapless gap we close by reaching an arm’s length in front of us to wipe a tear or wash a bowl. You won’t find compassion in the brain. You will find it in your hands.
We can only love the world we wake up to. Start right here.
Good morning.
karen maezen miller
