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Practicing Maitri

“In order to have compassion for others, we must first have compassion for ourselves.” (Meagan McCrary)

They all say
Love all beings
Treat them as you would treat yourself
But how can you emanate a love
You don’t already have
It all has to start with you
Loving you
Not in a conceptual way
Not in a right or wrong way
But as a Human Being
An indivisible part of the whole
A perfect piece of the puzzle
A wise and deep Being
So make friends with yourself
Find compassion for yourself
Care and embrace yourself
Know your never ending worth
Your always renewed love
Try practicing Maitri
And start feeling at Home
With yourself

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Just Like That

“What I am really saying is that you don’t need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way, you are all as much extraordinary phenomenon of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars, and the form of a galaxy. You are all just like that, and there is nothing wrong with you at all.” (Alan Watts)

Yes, you are alright
Just like that
You are alright

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The Right to Freedom

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err and even to sin.  If God Almighty has given the humblest of His Creatures the freedom to err, it passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of this precious right.” (The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi, Encyclopedia of Gandhi’s Thoughts.)

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Humanity

It is always simple to love abstract things. It is more simple to love humanity than to love human beings, because in loving humanity you are not risking anything. A single human being is far more dangerous than the whole of humanity. Humanity is a word, an abstraction; there is no corresponding reality to it. The human being is a reality, and when you come across a reality there are going to be good times, bad times, pain, pleasure, ups and downs, highs and lows, agonies and ecstasies. Loving humanity, there will be no ecstasy and no agony. In fact, loving humanity is a way of avoiding human beings. It is because you can´t love human beings that you start loving humanity just to deceive yourself.

Osho, The Wisdom of the Sands, Vol. 1, Talk #6

(Source: osho.com)

A perspective to think about…
Can you perceive the beauty in the individual as much as you can perceive it in the whole? 

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