Awaken to Compassion

Compassionate action flows naturally from one who sees the underlying unity of all life with the light of the awakened heart. We know compassion because it is a divine quality that already exists in us. We yearn to experience it more fully because we have tasted it. The sweetness of it is within our own hearts; our conscience speaks of it daily.
~Yogacharya Ellen Grace O'Brian from her book Living for the Sake of the Soul

Our meditation practice opens up our hearts and minds to observing and experiencing all of life as one. We experience the unity of all of life and understand how we are not individual beings in a separate existence from this manifest world. We come to know and experience how our existence affects all of life as all of life affects us. We are interconnected. As we understand our connection with life, compassionate action just flows from that. It is natural to us. Yogacharya has given the example that we wouldn't desire to taste ice cream if we hadn't already tasted it. We have many soul qualities—divine qualities that are the essence of our being. Love and compassion are two of them. Taste the sweetness. Be the sweetness.