Comments on: Human Kindness Overflowing

By: Outer Limits of Love and Hate |

Outer Limits of Love and Hate | — Sat, 14 Nov 2020 23:39:50 +0000

[…] is instinctive. It would be nice if we were better in touch with some of our instincts, like compassion. Compassion can be hard to muster while our bodies and souls have been so relentlessly threatened […]

By: Monica

Monica — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 18:45:47 +0000

I love tonglen. I use it primarily with animals, as I have resigned myself to the fact that most humans suck. Animal suffering is something that is deeply, deeply (yes, two deeplys) disturbing to me. So when I use tonglen to send love and healing to animals, it at least takes a small piece of anxiety away.

BTW, I’m not emotionally mature enough to have a FB page, as I just argue about shit with people and say incendiary, inflammatory things, but if I was, and if I did, I’d have given $5.00. It’s the very least I could do. Which is usually my goal.

By: Harmreduction

Harmreduction — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 22:18:56 +0000

WOW!

I have missed you so very much. This has reminded me how essential your blog seems to my soul.

By: Jaimi

Jaimi — Sun, 28 Jul 2013 23:02:40 +0000

This is just so gorgeous. I read this when it was posted and I still can’t form a reasonable response other than that I got a sense of hopefulness from it.

By: Debbie

Debbie — Mon, 22 Jul 2013 03:04:19 +0000

Dear Sister – An amazing post — especially because I have been feeling the same way lately. Very blue, missing my mother (who died in 2005), missing my beautiful cousin who died 6 months ago of a brain tumor at 55, the news, the Republicans, the Democrats, Trayvon Martin, all the injustice in the world, housing prices, the U.S. government, and on and on. The pain of being human … sigh. But in the words of a very wise man, my dad, “sometimes, you have to cry.” Amazing isn’t it? Sometimes we just have to cry.

You are a very profound writer and many times I wish I could hug you right through the internet because I feel love for you and your suffering and at the same time you can also make me laugh out loud. Sometimes I, too, take in too much suffering. Maybe it is in my make up, I don’t know, but I relate to you. I would feel the same way had I taken in that much suffering in a day or a week. It is a lot to bear when you are a compassionate person and have a heart. So, with that said, once again I send you love through the ether. People, I really believe, are MORE GOOD than bad. It doesn’t seem like it a lot of the time, but I believe it is true.

BIG HUG
XOXO
Deb

By: Queen Marie

Queen Marie — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 12:07:53 +0000

Dearest Darling Sister

What a beautiful post

I am torn between wanting to cry and rage at those people who would not help.
Life in overwhelming in so many ways that you get caught up in the just trying to deal with the everyday dramas. But you are so right you have to do something.
I’m so sorry that I have not been in touch recently.
I have been a bad Queen.

I shall try harder but please know that you and yours are always in my thoughts and prayers.

Sending you much love ( and hopefully a shamefully late Christmas package which is still sitting here mocking me!!!!!)

Queen Marie
xxxx
xxx
xxx

By: Elelta

Elelta — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 16:31:52 +0000

suffering in, compassion out. its like being a tree for each other. trees take the Co2 and give us o2. I love your blog.
Bye bye have a good day today

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 04:36:06 +0000

I just want to tell you this is a wonderful, beautiful post.

By: Ali

Ali — Wed, 10 Jul 2013 02:54:49 +0000

Words are healing. Hair is comforting.

By: Ali

Ali — Wed, 10 Jul 2013 02:54:15 +0000

*also, I do think it is notable that you speak of sorrow ad compassion in terms of breathing in and breathing out. All that oxygen is going straight to your brains ….beautiful brains growing beautiful hair and beautiful words

Xoxoxox