Empathy & Compassion; The Real Story
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all right so today what um today let's talk about empathy and compassion okay empathy and compassion really really good stuff to talk about one reason i'm thinking of this is because we're still hearing a lot of people not understanding empathy or compassion and sort of misusing the words out there in the world last week you might recall we were speaking about the difference between our lower self and higher self but we added one that for some reason people don't talk about how many of you have ever heard
people go lower self higher self highest self you almost never hear highest self which to me is no accident it's because the highest self is the god aspect and people tend to leave god out whenever and wherever they can the ego will just find subtle ways to nix that from your sentences your statements your life your living just it's just another way to sort of sabotage that you have a highest self your higher self is just you know better than your lower self but it's higher higher doesn't mean that's it
there's one more highest lower self lower three chakras higher self your heart center highest is the divine trinity in our head and neck chakras okay so besides that there's when we go to learn and study and understand things like compassion and empathy guess what you can learn them from the lower self because you know for example uh a person can be totally broken and not understand true compassion they can mistake sympathy pity for compassion that's not your higher self nor your highest right so there's a lower self a higher self
and a highest self your higher self located in your heart center has two aspects to it two facets one of them being your version of life living even compassion love we have your our version the human so half of my higher self is still human driven it's higher than my lower self but it's still human still only understanding from my experience my human perceptions the higher aspect of my heart is a mirror on which the light of god can shine down and and give me a higher version a higher light higher understanding is
that all making sense all right given that then when we go to understand things like empathy and compassion i can understand those too like everything else from a lower standpoint a higher standpoint or another higher standpoint that's even higher than this side one side or the other doesn't matter right so when we learn to understand or study things like uh and and this this higher aspect where god reaches down and is shining new light and inspiration into us even that isn't the highest remember the
highest is up here but this is the highest a human would be able to know the light of god i call it a reflection shades of god okay a reflection of god rather than the real real thing that happens in oneness with god now in our heart center even in the highest side of our heart center in our heart center we still you know the highest feelings a human being can feel would include unconditional love things like compassion but those are not the highest unconditional love still implies that there's a conditional love too
unconditional love is still not total complete love divine but as human beings while you're on earth the highest emotions you're going to feel would be things like unconditional love true empathy true compassion all heart-centered things there are other feelings that are higher but they're not human feelings they're divine feelings humans can feel compassion god doesn't actually have to feel compassion if it feels compassion it's not done the same way humans feel compassion the symbolism of
kuan yin often you'll see um a hand of hers you know reaching or or even buddha you often see two hand mudras one sometimes you'll see of buddha hand down and hand up you know you'll sometimes see kuan yin with one hand doing a gesture and the other holding a job a jar or a base a bottle of some kind and what that means is i am feeling what you're going through but i'm extending compassion to you to help you out in divine consciousness i can't perceive you as having a problem that needs compassion
you get the next level up see that's the other level and people don't talk about that one much people will say compassion is the highest emotion it is for humans i ask god show me what you would have me feel and it takes me to another level by asking god see if i try to know it i myself can only go so high up in the humility of i don't know a higher i am presence can shine light in the other half of our heart and i can see reflections of something greater but to know that something greater it has nothing to
do with our thinking processes nor can the human brain handle it 24 7 for the rest of your life the absolute love of god isn't is it's not it's not involving feeling even empathy and compassion it's beyond that as i shared okay so first of all compassion um there's authentic compassion and there's non-authentic empathy there's authentic and there's not authentic not authentic would mean anything that's a limited version of it that's one way you can kind of you know practice discerning one from
the other but uh human beings no matter what they have this compulsion to say well if i'm going to feel something i'm going to feel it from my opinions of that topic i will decide if you need compassion and empathy but i'm all messed up who am i to determine what you need i mean that's you know come on oh well i know because i'm a reiki master stop talking just stop talking everybody's a reiki master the guy that rotates the tires at big o he's a break everybody's a reiki master that doesn't mean you're really plugged
in you know now i'm not saying reiki masters aren't it's the choice they can make the title doesn't guarantee it so you know but there's authentic versions and there are non-authentic versions let's start with compassion so authentic and not authentic you know non-authentic compassion means i see that you're hurting i see a victim and or a victimizer and i draw this experience the situation and the people involved into my compassionate heart and i give you as much love and healing as possible i
transform it it's it's the non-authentic would be like feeling pity for you oh you're going through that oh hold on a minute i'm going to use my advanced compassionate exercise of meditation to transform how screwed up you are so hold on give me a minute see but it still perceives a problem and that's better than no compassion so false compassion is like pitying people there is a higher form which of course is like a buddhist form that's the higher that's a more authentic form of compassion
which is like saying i i really feel for you i truly feel for you and i'm going to to to share with you because uh empathy is like what i feel from you compassion is what i return to you what i give to you in return for what i'm feeling so empathy is sort of the feeling in compassion the action taken so they're like two sides of the same coin right so it's really really cool but there's a distinct difference if you're recognizing you're feeling like sympathy or pity stop right there catch yourself
clean it up i'm too involved i'm feeling pity now how do i know that's not the highest level it's very simple if i see myself feeling feeling pity a false form of you know empathy and or compassion i recognize that's not actually god's will when i claim to be you know plugged in and i'm really great at empathy or at compassion look at how you're doing it and it'll tell you whether it's more an authentic version so i set aside my version of what i'm seeing or perceiving in you
and and i'm saying no no god you know i i would like help in seeing this differently and what happens is you shift from lower self perceptions of a person's problems to a higher but not highest yet a higher perspective of how to deal with this is that all making sense so far all right so another way to know that compassion is a limited form i mean just that word limited if i'm feeling like somebody's got some really big problems and somebody else lesser but i'm going to work with this on empathy or compassion the very idea that
i'm determining that their problems are greater or lesser means that i'm still giving them value and power watch for these subtle little sabotages that the ego throws in start with i don't know anything all right start with humility and it'll get you more quickly centered into what's really happening for a person but i'm going to explain this in a way that sort of takes this higher and higher as we go so real compassion basically means having compassion not for the problem or the victim
if i say let me do a compassion exercise oh you poor thing you poor thing you poor thing i'm not getting it false empathy is sinking in the quicksand with everybody i mean you know wow and that's such a buzz phrase everybody's an empath what does that mean look at the definition go and read online five signs of being an empath and it's gonna be like you're a victim of everybody's emotions that's not true empathy it just means you're codependent you have no boundaries that's what it means
you're messed up you know when your nervous system is hyperstimulated by everybody else just stop and say does that sound like god's will no and if it's not god's will it must not be authentic okay that's okay michael so real compassion means that i'm it's it's not about i feel compassion because i see a victim and a victimizer more authentic compassion is this i feel for the fact that you even believe you can go through such a thing see the difference i feel compassion i feel empathy
and compassion for the very idea that you believe something has power over you i get it and i'm going to help with objective prayers and good will if you see the victim or victimizer and try to help them you've already affirmed they're sick and now you're going to try to help them which is countering or contradictory to the idea that you just said they're sick oh look at that poor victim which you're fl inflaming your you know like the bellows to a fire you're inflaming that they're a victim and that they're
broken and then you're going but i have some water to help put that out oh you know it's like a wash at the end of the day you took them two steps forward and two steps back or two back and then two forward so it didn't really help i need to see this differently i'm calling with my heart help me to see it differently the the clouds part the light of god shines down and i start to go i don't see a victim and victimizer i only see a brother sister who is equally one with god as is christ and so on but they have
forgotten momentarily in other words i see it not as a real problem but as a temporary belief system it's a whole like it's a whole way of looking at this differently that's a little bit more authentic compassion you know and it's it might seem like well i don't get it or it doesn't matter it really does make a difference but again any form of empathy and compassion at least you're trying to do something i wouldn't shame you for trying but do consider taking it out of the uh the mud
you know out of the the uh um yucky stuff of this world and giving it power and then trying to fix it true compassion it's it's i get it a bit more now you're not a messed up person that i'm feeling for you're a holy child of god who has forgotten because you forgot that's what i'm feeling for not the symptoms of your forgetting that's what false empathy would be and false compassion i would really like to help how messed up you are instead it's i get it you're not messed up but you
have forgotten who you really are and for that i feel for you and my compassionate healing now is going to be instead of oh blessing of love like we think from a human standpoint real compassion is going to be guess what who you really are oh my god isn't this exciting why do you think the word passion is in there there shouldn't be depression it's not compression half of the word depression it's compassion there should be guess what oh my god i just felt empathetically this wave of something that you're
hurting okay i get it true empathy you don't jump in the quicksand with him the wave comes oh something's happening guess what it's impossible that something have power over you passionate compassion for each other so there's a code to it a passion that we're sharing and then when it comes to empathy there's false forms again you know the people that go uh i mean god it's all over the internet right i hear this from people all the time they send in letters and emails and hey some teacher said on the internet
you know empathy what is empathy there's sympathy we've done talks just on this topic but it's not the same as sympathy empathy is supposed to be supposed to be that you are in your center observing a situation with unconditional love that does not fit the same definition as people going uh i'm such an empath i really oh god i can barely survive each day i walk out the door and i'm just barraged with people's problems because i'm such a holy sponge that's like saying that because you do
acid and see colors that you're an artistic mystic you're not you're just an addict this is just what i'm channeling this isn't my fault no but that seriously so to say empathic if you say and yet you sound like a victim oh oh woe is me you know because i'm an empath when you say it like that that can't be god's will that can't be god's version of empathy if you're suffering how can it be god-related it's supposed to be centered centered in unconditional love and i
offer prayers and whatever suggestions this beautiful presence that you're holding i'm and i'm not i don't want to come across like i'm saying you're bad or wrong for misrepresenting empathy but it's it's it's basically codependent a person who claims to be an empath by taking everybody's energy how is that not looking codependent i mean read the definitions of these things and that's what you're going to get that's codependence a person without boundaries tends to either blast into people's
lives without boundaries or they tend to let other people blast into theirs neither of those can be god's will so god show me true empathy and that would result in you're going to stay in your center the compassion is coming empathy first what are you feeling oh a barrage of feelings then my beloved child sounds like you need healing if you're being barraged if your nervous system is over stimulated with negative energy that can't be god's will and and i know and i i swear to you i know and i understand
how that might make some people feel especially if you're one who tends to walk around telling everybody how empathic you are or if you're leading workshops on it you know hi everybody i'm an empath a master empath you know i've done level three in empath hyper stimulation you know and i can teach you a thing or two and everybody's you know their audience and it's just it's group insanity empathy means i'm sitting in god and receiving not i'm in your nervous system and you're in mine
centered in god so you re you still receive messages so to speak but not hyper stimulation with true empathy you receive information your nervous system will translate some of it but it doesn't barrage you it doesn't beat you up it at let's say it's almost like a superhero spider sense you know spider-man sense you know it's like hey what's going on i can sense things you're in a human body so of course sometimes even doing your best to be a centered empath you're sometimes going to still get some
of that stimulation hyperstimulation from the world you're still going to sometimes oops into sadness into pity it's it's going to happen because we're humans and we slip a little but if you want to be a true empath know your center and forgive yourself catch yourself and forgive yourself when you slip don't live in the slipping out of line and call that good know what is good and then do your best to stay in the goodness i do care about people empathic i do want to do my best to be helpful empathic
i will not jump in the quicksand with their pain i will also not not empower how if somebody's sad i won't give that that much power i hear you oh i'm really angry today well tell me about it so i can get angry too that's not empath but an empath is also not going to say you should not be angry shaming them is not compassion the empath stays in their center and hears what's going on a really healthy mommy and daddy vibe has glimpses of being a true empath a really healthy mommy daddy so that when the child's going mommy you
know i cut my leg and i'm gonna die oh honey it's it's i'll take care of it it's okay that is like a healthy empath compassion you're you know not going into oh my god you're right that little cut honey you might bleed to death mommy help me i can't i'm freaked out that's unhealthy empath okay all this screaming has got me you know freaked out no find your center be the healthy mommy daddy archetype healthy version and bring that to the world i hear what's happening you know you're
not going to come across cold but you're also not going to jump in with them something in the center that's a bit more true empathy and when it comes to compassion like i said the same thing the the actions i'm gonna take are not going to be hyper this way or that way somewhere in here i'm going to offer unconditional love you you don't want that okay i'm still shining that light you absorb it whenever you want stay objective you don't get upset when they don't take it you don't
get hurt you know this is who i am if i've chosen to plug into the i am of god then i am the light of the world if you're living in darkness i'm just going to shine light i'm not going to judge you for having darkness and i'm not going to judge how much darkness you have you know usually i'm like the light of the world but man you're in such darkness i can't help you that's not true compassion you learn to see things as they truly are but how through your means or through god's
go to god you show me and you know powerful things happen when we learn that humility and surrender and say god how would you have me do this or how would you have me see this so there's a clear distinction the lower self feeds into don't call that compassion and empathy the lower self's version is all messed up it's all twisted around it's all misperceived and misrepresented see through it i hope some of you did already see through this but if you didn't now we got it then there's my heart's version and
that's higher but one side of my heart will still perceive empathy from a limited version so it might still come from buying into some of what they need their pain and that sort of thing buying into it a little and blessing them with some compassion but it's still a little bit of the human in there you go to the other side of your heart and you're asking for guidance the asking for guidance is what moves you from your higher self to your higher connected to god self but not all the way up yet it's higher
so something's shifting in me have you have any just wave ahead if any of you guys already practiced the difference that i'm talking about anybody you've seen it you felt it hearing that great great when you see the difference it becomes quite contrasted doesn't it i mean once you've tasted the other it should be challenging for you to ever want to go back the other way and settle for human versions of this it's like no no i i truly now i'm starting to understand and that's when all of your teaching and
your learning and your meditations have started filtering in to making your soul say i just can't picture settling anymore even with the concept of love there's human love down here unconditional love here and love divine here so even love can be you know humanized which means put into a limited form the divine the love of god is not actually called unconditional love there's conditional unconditional and divine i will not be able to hold the frequency of love divine 24 7 through my entire life because to be in that version of love
you will burst into light you will you cannot hold a body because the body is a testament of i'm a limited being i can be a limited being and no limited love that makes total sense i can even be a limited being and feel unconditional love can get away with that for a while but even unconditional sometimes oops slips into conditional you know codependent relationships and all these things i'm doing my best to be in unconditional love but it's 24 7 it's not easy but some people do it and they're
living masters that's great but even the living master shifts from what i what i think is unconditional love on one side of my heart to what god tells me is unconditional love but it's still a reflection because god's still telling me when i really get it i ascend here to the real deal love divine capital l capital d it's like boom and i can have that when i'm ready to release the body in the meantime i'm experiencing the highest my human self can know which is unconditional love all making sense with that so
this same concept i'm sharing about love love divine unconditional love is it look how consistent this all is very very consistent there's three aspects of myself lower higher highest there's different ways you can understand things in life lower higher highest love lower higher highest it's all very consistent some of us would like to think that we're so incredible that we're always up here now what do you do you just just smile you know there are there are people that will come up to you
like i jokingly did with robert hey robert my guides are saying that that shirt's for me you know there are people that do this they'll email you they'll call you hey my guide said you know you're you're you owe me a million dollars from another lifetime really now how do you how do you dispute that when they're saying you know my divine i am said that ain't your divine i am that's your human i am not let's call it your ain't yes you know i wouldn't say that to them because
to humiliate them or call them it just adds more darkness for them listen with true empathy respond with true compassion i understand and i'll i'll sit with that and think about that you know or whatever you feel like saying but in this world people would like to think that everything they're doing is always the highest it's love divine it's you know when someone's you know attracted you when people say i do at the altar it's not usually love divine it's usually humans usually do the human part human
love human versions of compassion which are false limited human versions of empathy which are false and limited but if you're on the path long enough you should start hearing about a more authentic version you should start being attracted more to an authentic version you should start wanting to live more of an authentic version if you're getting ticked off or triggered by me describing this then you're still down here and you're feeling caught called out if you really are ready for the real deal you're going
this is exciting you don't have to shame yourself for having done full you know limited versions just get excited about i'm ready to go wow it sounds like i'm ready for another level you know call this a a calling a clarion call to your soul come forward let's let's all go to a new level it's not about shaming the false levels just see through them and kind of laugh yeah you know that was me i remember a couple of gals that attended a lot of classes back in the early 90s and they had this
propensity to their guides kept telling them things and their guides were telling them to to be in love with you know let's call it public figures that they will never meet but they would sit there going oh yeah because my guidance you know you know and i'm really in love and they just don't know it yet that public figure you know they're sending them letters you may not know me you never met me but you're supposed to be you know you're meant to be with me you know they have people that read those
things and shred them they you know it's just considered loony but these two gals were convinced and they would they would reach out they would email not get something or their emails weren't really happening but they'd write letters not get something back and they would crash and get depressed and then the same people with the same pattern started becoming healers they started doing healing work and they would i would hear them having conversations before i started a class and you would hear this oh yeah you know
and i worked on this person oh god my energy was all drained afterwards but i did such a great job and i'm just you know finally i decided you know let's today let's talk about as though i didn't have a you know purpose for it and i'm like let's talk about this and i said you know when you feel this and you feel this and you feel drained when you're doing healing work how could it be god if it's having a negative effect on you now we all have had this i'm not shaming us i'm you know but if this is your
way your general way of doing healing oh you know i i did such profound healing today that a leg fell off that's not good you know you sound like you're you're having those after effects of medicines they advertise on tv yeah right yeah that's what it sounds like you know oh yeah i did such holy work today i lost a limb that's that's that can't be god now i'm not shaming you for it i want to tell you about the other so you go there did you know there's also doing healing work where it doesn't take a toll on you
you actually feel better hmm there's a novel concept if the light of god is coming through you you should gain a bit that doesn't mean there's you're wrong for having felt the other it just means that you need an attitude attitude adjustment a belief system adjustment and it might be that you need to start owning either your value instead of the none from another lifetime where you're not allowed to be paid where you're not allowed to be happy you have these old vows as a priest and not
a monk or whatever it is and you're carrying that into your current healing work but with the belief system oh i have to go and unwork christian soldiers and i've got to go out and do god's work until the day i die and hopefully at that point god will have such pity upon me it's not let that way we're supposed to be excited standing in the light you deserve it and if you don't get that then you should work on your deservability i deserve to be able to be objective and truly empathic and not beat up
i deserve by god's standards by god's will to be truly compassionate and know how to extend love to others including myself that love some of it's supposed to stick so all the gold that's pouring through me the light golden light of god to others some of that gold dust ends up sticking you know just it it becomes part of me it becomes integrated all that i would wish for others is something i become that's true empathy true compassion and true empathy and compassion cannot involve you being separate from
the person you're observing and better than them i heard you're really messed up well i can center myself into a profound level of empathy and compassion and help you out as soon as i see that there's a you i need help there needs to be a true attitude if you're truly empathic and compassionate your attitude will be we're in this together you and i and i will be the one who speaks for us today feeling this sharing that beautiful but if i slip i too will need to call for some help see there's not a superiority there
how can i be helpful today truly humble people there needs to be a humility to be truly empathic and compassionate but the humility is not a false humility that makes you a bad person my humility simply means i've got my ego in check blessed are the meek means i see through my ego and i know how to set it aside blessed or the meek is a powerful statement it's like saying good job dude you know i'm paraphrasing but you know good job eh you know like good job yes you did it you saw how your ego was infiltrating
and you set it aside and said humbly how can i be helpful blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth which means when i see my ego and see through it and put it aside and focus on the light of god you will inherit the earth meaning you'll be given all the power you need to do anything even in this world things will not have the same power they seemingly once had okay do me a favor please take a few centering breaths we're going to share a nice meditation together part of it will be sort of a education and part of it will be a
letting go and experience let's start off with this first just breathing in the sense of gratitude anything you heard today that made sense for you just breathe that in gratefully now take a moment to contemplate what false empathy looks like false empathy i sort of described it but just your best guess what does false empathy look like you know the hyper-stimulated taking on everybody's vibes people are down they draw you down they push and pull your energy codependent-like behaviors just take a look at that
the effects on your nervous system your best guess and then ask yourself as you're seeing this ask yourself does this feel like it's god's will for you rather than someone like me telling you just ask yourself does this feel like god's will the pushing pulling that's stimulating my nervous system that they're down so i get taken down does it feel right for you does it resonate with peace and joy and if you can identify that then you're already able to identify what is of the lower self
the lower self not to be cursed the lower self that's waiting for the real self to shine light further down into our humanness do the same thing with compassion can you identify false versions of compassion which is like when you start to pity or feel sorry for people notice as soon as you do it oh that poor person oh that terrible news they received when you're doing that notice how you're saying they they what you're doing subconsciously is pushing them away they have a challenge and you notice
you're not going with them that's not true compassion is it god's will for you to feel sorry for people it might seem like it well of course god would want me to feel sorry for think about it more deeply you feeling sorry you feeling dropped energetically towards a feeling of someone does that really sound like it's god's will again you decide please and then let's take it a little higher let's let's look at this from our higher self the first half of our higher self the human part so
this is in our heart center so imagine that you're standing in your center truly loving and caring about other people but without losing your sense of balance and safety and center truly feeling care for others that's a healthier version of empathy and compassion so see yourself doing that for a moment you practice this with an actual situation in your life look at people you lately have felt sorry for you felt they call it bad for that person but now look at this version i truly care but you're not jumping in or falling
into the quicksand with them feel like you have a a deep understanding and this is important a deep understanding of what's really going on for this person that what they're going through is something that that they feel like they need to go through based on their belief systems so understanding does help to bring out compassion and empathy i get that see not good or bad i just get that this is where they're at right now that's good that's the heart center now let's go to the second half of the
heart center and make a slight but major adjustment so try this one on for size so now we're not doing our version of what they need where you see before i was saying imagine what you would feel now i'm asking to do the following imagine what god-centered empathy and compassion look like god-centered we're not all the way up in the god center but it's shining down into one half of our heart so what can you imagine being god-centered empathy and compassion what would it look like if you allow yourself to determine the
problem and the solution then you're not yet doing the god aspect there has to be a humility of i don't know god how would you have me see the situation literally practice this with a situation in in anybody in your life right now instead of saying i need to know how to help them fix them they're you're staying out of the picture now you're asking god to shine its light into your heart and guide you how would you have me be empathic to them or or compassionate for them and let that come like an organic
process right now really do that when we get to this level we become clear that there is no issue in others that needs empathy or compassion we're no longer assigning definitions or words like they need they have a problem and they need empathy now they're beyond even the need for empathy and compassion now you're doing the god work how would you have me see them i'm going to see myself and others at such a high level of pure light and love they're already healed and whole not they need lower compassion empathy
higher compassion empathy now that's not there they need nothing so imagine these people in that state of needing nothing i'm not sending them compassion i'm imagining that they begin to shine there's a spark of light in the core of their being and it starts to shine brighter and brighter and brighter see that see that spark of light just becoming this full blaze of light i mean what greater gift can you give them but the remembrance of who they really are to give them compassion is still helping
to fix a problem now see them beyond any possible problem imagine that like growing and growing and growing until it completely engulfs the per person in a beautiful way delivers them into who they really are do it for your child your parent your friend whomever it is do it for a group of people beyond the pity try this this is divine work versus human do this with politicians especially the ones you think don't deserve it do this with world leaders do this with religious leaders do it with people in past history
do it with people from your past ancestors with everybody not just people you think are bad also do this with people that you think are victims and that we're really good people but victims if you see them as victims they're going to remain victims see the holiness in them that gives them power and heals the victim energy even if it's a child of yours that poor little thing a grandchild a great grandchild oh that poor thing their parents are not very good and i feel so bad for that poor little kid now it stays a poor little kid start
imagining the christ presence in them birth the christ presence in them so this light grows and grows and it just bursts they become the living christ and they become immune which will be proven eventually to the stuff their parents do picture this and that light you're seeing in them becomes so grand and great and present that it also engulfs you picture that the light i affirmed in you i now receive as well oh my goodness i thought i was the healer doing this for you but all that you gain now takes me up too
all of us in the light of god and as long as you're not in your head right now you should start to feel something called gratitude you just made a difference in their life they should start feeling grateful they're making a difference in yours you should start feeling grateful they'll feel grateful you'll feel grateful i promise you god itself will feel grateful so we're all basking in the light of god then we're all basking in gratitude for our remembrance now honestly take a look at this do you
see anything or anyone that still needs empathy or compassion that's when you'll know you've really done real work with empathy and compassion because when you're done it's not needed and so it is anyway oh that's good man good stuff i love that that you know because a really good spiritual center anywhere in the world and including sedona there are people that'll talk you know like let's talk about compassion they'll tell you about compassion
they'll tell you how compassionate they are they'll tell you the compassion of buddha's heart and all that but first of all it's still mixed up with human versions a good teacher needs to split those and say hey let me let me just show you there's this instead of just all jumbled but also the average center is going to be okay with just that and not go did you know that there's the lack of compassion there's the heart compassion did you know that there's another one did you know that there's one where you
don't end up feeling anything like compassion because there's no problem now i'm not talking about being in denial you know somebody runs over your foot oh there's no problem you know i will not need to go to the hospital and get my foot repaired that's denial i'm talking about deep in the soul you feel a celebration isn't it wonderful that even though we go through this seems to be that in reality nothing has power over us you know you're celebrating this this inevitable awareness that everybody will come to
you're celebrating it it's right to celebrate it and some people are going to go you know you you know there's something wrong with you you're not getting engaged with us you're not getting upset like we are it must be because you're in one of those new age you know they'll judge you so be careful to not put yourself in harm's way and get all judged about it but rather just see it at the very least see it and smile inside on the outside you know do when in rome you know go go ahead unless you feel guided to do
something else people will get upset they're watching the news and they're arguing with each other about politics or economy or whatever it happens to be let them do what they're going to do just smile maybe not hang out there too often but if you do you know just smile and you you're not there to push buttons you're not there to prove to them how how centered and holy you are you know if if i were sitting there god forbid and somebody was watching the news god forbid and i was for some reason stuck to be
there for several minutes god forbid what i would probably do like if they're saying oh man can you believe that happened i would do something like wow flying under the radar you know oh you're right wow that is upsetting isn't it all i'm doing is being present with you inside i'm like you know having to do all kinds of chants you know to hold my center you know bloody hell lord bloody hell you know these humans you know it's like wow i told you the story once where a guy broke in george harrison's house
and stabbed him an inch from his heart stabbed him and the whole time i think this is hilarious the whole time george has been a practitioner of a spiritual path for a long time so this guy breaks in his house and he's wrestling with the guy and the guy stabs him and continues to try to stab him more his wife's freaking out she's screaming george fight him off and george is oh my god he's just doing mantras as the guys you know she's like shut up and fight him off you know he was like i didn't want to i was like hey
if it's my time to go let me chant my connection to spirit and he's he's doing all his spiritual work it's kind of like that when when you're in the circumstances and they're a little weird he's doing it externally but i'm asking just just keep doing doing your best to make micro adjustments to hold your center it's all right for you to go oh wow because they feel heard they feel supported if today is the day they look at you and say can i ask you your perspective of these kinds of
things maybe then tactfully you can plant some new seeds but do not think that your soul's purpose is to force new seeds upon people you know of your wisdom that's not your soul's purpose your actual soul's purpose is closer to blending in with them flying in under the radar you know a spiritual spy you know that that's more of your soul's purpose to blend in and bring a difference that more so than standing out and telling them the difference they should be making blend in it doesn't make you less
centered spiritual powerful holy it makes you more so all right all right thank you we're going to do our collection and closing prayer i appreciate everybody being here and there's people from all over the world joining us um i hope the majority get get what i was saying thank you um and and that it makes a difference i really do i i pray that that really connects with where you're at what you're ready to learn once in a while there'll be people that go man i i can't no this is too much you know if
they want to stay for example being false empaths and they want to you know stay victims they might get upset that i'm sort of like making light of of the false versions of compassion if they if they're if that's their thing to be false versions then they're going to not kind of you know like some of the things i'm sharing that's okay all right they can go to falseempathy.
com and join that [Laughter] or one there's probably one boguscompassion.com i'm joking you know i mean you know just keep going for the real thing you know the real thing um he just handed me a flyer to remind in a couple of weeks we have a workshop happening here called exploring relationships and true intimacy i'll be facilitating that if you're interested you can join us it's a few hours only in the afternoon right after service exploring relationships and true intimacy intimacy all right all right i'll leave it for
next week all right please stand we'll do our closing prayer how's it feel feel good today good nice and good nutritious soul food all right food for the soul holding your center holding a state of gratitude love respect for each other the light of god surrounds us the love of god unfolds us the power of god protects us the presence of god watches over us wherever we go god is i am we are and so it is peace be with you all we'll see you soon bye