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THE EARTH-WORLD WAITS
Blog City Prompt: What do you think “compassion” is?
Can one show compassion even for one’s worst enemy?


Compassion is a very powerful idea.

The definition for compassion is the showing or feeling pity and concern for the suffering of others. It is one of the motivating factors that affect a person who lives in service of others. The words that are associated include: sympathy, empathy, leniency, tolerance and kindness. There often is a strong desire to alleviate the suffering and the conditions that cause it.

Within my early education (and including University) I don't remember very much being directed towards the idea of compassion as a desirable human trait. The American generations have been isolated from the overwhelming need for compassion. I think not since the Vietnam War, when there was graphic and immediate news about the horrors of that war, has the public reaction been as strong. All the media news is soft and censored, and even the religions are often silent. The sin of omission is more frequent in our civilized societies. At best, we see selective compassion directed by corporate and government dollars paid to whom? For what? Many questions there.

If the public (American & European) truly knew and understood what has and is being done in their name, they would have some kind of reaction. I would pray it would be compassionate, tolerant, and a strong desire to begin to alleviate the pain and suffering..

Centered alone in spirit,
Complete in surety of the sun’s rising,
Golden edged clouds precede,
Sharp beams cut through sheltering branches,
Leafless in winter’s mantle of white pure snow,

The Earth-world waits,
Teeming with expectation.
Complexities as diverse as those within the plant-insect domains,
Emerge to seize the creative imagination,
Of those who would see the truth,
Truth as it appears within their limit of knowledge,
Information—ever expanding,
Streaming around the entities with fast-as-light speed,
And broadband encompassing volume,
Devoid of that same quality long revered,
Lacking in preparation or experience,
Shallow beyond all understanding,
We grasp at old men’s ideas of new worlds—false images,
Long since evaporated in what is.

The Earth Community wraps itself together with electronic strands,
While barriers form,
New each day,
To be burrowed under,
Around,
Personally dissected,
Freed in space to be caught by tiny dishes,
Relinking,
Reaffirming,
Human ties that leap beyond language or rules on paper,
Or those screamed on national broadcasts.
Where is the center of the spirit?
Is it alone any longer?


Listen to the silence...>>>iggy*Boat*

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