Evolution of love

SADNESS IS NOT NATURAL

Sadness is always a sign that you're believing a stressful

thought that isn't true for you. It's a constriction, and it feels bad.

Conventional wisdom says differently, but the truth is that sadness isn't rational,

it isn't a natural response, and it can't ever help you.

It just indicates the loss of reality, the loss of the awareness of love.

Sadness is the war with what IS. It's a tantrum. You can experience it only when you're arguing with God.

When the mind is clear, there isn't any sadness. There can't be.

What does compassion look like? At a funeral, just eat the cake.

You don't have to know what to do. It's revealed to you.

Someone comes into your arms, and the kind words speak

themselves; you're not doing it. Compassion isn't a doing.

Whether or not you're suffering over their suffering, you're standing or you're sitting.

But one way you're comfortable, the other way you're not.

You don’t have to feel bad to act kindly. On the contrary:

the less you suffer the kinder you naturally become. And if compassion means

wanting others to be free of suffering, how can you want for

others what you won’t give yourself?