MARCH - Love & Compassion

                                                                        Illustration by Miki Howenstein
                                                             (From page 80 of the book “Jumbo Jumble”)
……. Repressing your own sorrow will only harden you; however, facing your sorrows and weaknesses without judgement can melt your hardened heart and fill it with compassionate understanding. In turn, your judgements of others and the futile efforts to change them will start to dissipate as the compassion you have come to feel for yourself also flows out to them.……

Author’s Comment:   SELF COMPASSION—without it, there is absolutely no way you can be compassionate to others. Facing your own sorrows and weaknesses, and accepting them as a part of yourself, allows you to do the same for others. You may come to find good reason for harboring them, or decide to cast them aside so you can become more the person you wish to be, but either way, a sense of humility and benevolence will be nurtured leading you to be a more loving and lovable person.