I saw a meme online that made me sad. It was a picture of the back of a car window, where people here in the United States like to post stick figures representing their family members. This one had three male figures behind bars, one woman, and around ten kids. While I'm sure the person who developed the meme was joking around, it was getting a good many flippant comments. What made me sad was that is was just so easy for many of my middle class friends to stereotype and judge people they know nothing about. They are viewing life through the perspective of the mind.
The mind's perspective is extremely narrow in scope. It uses the lessons of experience and the five senses to understand what is going on, and it judges accordingly. Making quality decisions is very difficult when all you have is limited understanding.
My intuitive, empathic heart will not let me look at those real-life situations in a way that makes fun of them. When I look at a situation like the one described above I see pain. I see low self esteem. I see people living their lives in the only way they have been taught how. While it is possible for people to pull themselves up from such a place, it is hard to do. It takes a really special person to overcome that level of difficulty.
An empathic heart desires to relieve pain where it is found. It will reach out in ways that help lift others up. The heart will not stop its mission of changing the world for the better, no matter what area of life that is in.
When we allow ourselves to look at the world through the mind, we automatically have problems. The mind categorizes and judges and separates in order to try to make sense of things. The mind will prioritize and place things in a hierarchy, and this becomes our measuring stick of what is "good" or "bad". As long as we see things from the viewpoint of separation, we cannot fix the world's problems. It is separation that created the problems in the first place.
Allow yourself to grow past the mentality of the mind and back into the mentality of the heart. The problems and chaos of the world can only be fixed by drawing on the vast wealth of information that is accessed through the heart. Our very survival depends on it.
~CSE
The mind's perspective is extremely narrow in scope. It uses the lessons of experience and the five senses to understand what is going on, and it judges accordingly. Making quality decisions is very difficult when all you have is limited understanding.
My intuitive, empathic heart will not let me look at those real-life situations in a way that makes fun of them. When I look at a situation like the one described above I see pain. I see low self esteem. I see people living their lives in the only way they have been taught how. While it is possible for people to pull themselves up from such a place, it is hard to do. It takes a really special person to overcome that level of difficulty.
An empathic heart desires to relieve pain where it is found. It will reach out in ways that help lift others up. The heart will not stop its mission of changing the world for the better, no matter what area of life that is in.
When we allow ourselves to look at the world through the mind, we automatically have problems. The mind categorizes and judges and separates in order to try to make sense of things. The mind will prioritize and place things in a hierarchy, and this becomes our measuring stick of what is "good" or "bad". As long as we see things from the viewpoint of separation, we cannot fix the world's problems. It is separation that created the problems in the first place.
Allow yourself to grow past the mentality of the mind and back into the mentality of the heart. The problems and chaos of the world can only be fixed by drawing on the vast wealth of information that is accessed through the heart. Our very survival depends on it.
~CSE
Most importantly we need to continue to show love for each other for love covers a multitude of sins.
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