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Populist Reform of the Democratic Party

Donkees

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5. Compassion isn't an emotion, which can pull you down into misery. There are emotions which resemble

Reply to Phlem (Reply #4)

Sat Aug 27, 2016, 01:23 PM

Aug 2016

true compassion, such as empathy, pity, self-pity, love and those are variable. Compassion is constant and does not judge. Its focus is seeing the clearest path to relieve suffering through action. It's not about being a doormat, because compassion begins with the self.

Everything that has ever happened to us is recorded in deep memory as a survival strategy, and anything new which reminds us of past dangers triggers an alarm to be vigilant. Sometimes we blow on cold soup.

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In essence, inequality lives in the realm of ego and is concerned about survival. Ego divides and Donkees Aug 2016 #1

Exactly. Phlem Aug 2016 #2

Compassion begins with the self and extends outward. We can only give away what we have... Donkees Aug 2016 #3

And is it compassion or ego that Phlem Aug 2016 #4

Compassion isn't an emotion, which can pull you down into misery. There are emotions which resemble Donkees Aug 2016 #5

Yep. Phlem Aug 2016 #6

Maybe because the "business" of living profits from keeping us neurotic and disempowered... Donkees Aug 2016 #7

This is what I'm saying. Phlem Aug 2016 #8