The One Who Listens, And Also Does

My soul breathes deeply,
fueled by the compassionate teachings of another it is...

stirred

awakened

filled

and given its mission.

Love all whom enter,
welcome them as family,
treat none as lesser or greater,
but all equally with respect.

Forgive those who wrong you,
brush off negativity at the moment it strikes,
never allowing its cold to weigh upon your shoulders.

Admire those whose presence preceded your own,
learn from their experience,
attend to them with patience,
feel their love surround you, supporting you in your weakness.

Allow their lessons to fill you with wisdom,
a wisdom beyond the realm of knowledge,
not captured in stale texts long since written,
but breathed into life with their every utterance.

Compassion is not an abstract to be studied, but an action to be lived out.