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Compassion is the door through which [[love]] can [[flow]]. Compassion is that initial identification, that initial impulse to love, that opens the door to all love and all [[understanding]]. Once there is compassion for another, there soon develops [[understanding]], and once there is understanding, it soon ripens into love.

Compassion is the door through which [[love]] can [[flow]]. Compassion is that initial identification, that initial impulse to love, that opens the door to all love and all [[understanding]]. Once there is compassion for another, there soon develops [[understanding]], and once there is understanding, it soon ripens into love.

Those who wish to harbor [[hatred]] vigilantly keep the door of compassion closed in their [[hearts]]. When one is forced to keep the door of compassion closed, there occurs, for want of a better [[analogy]] or word, a withering of [[the soul]] and often times a form of internal [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia schizophrenia] that is very injurious to [[spiritual growth]]. One can say it arrests spiritual growth because that side, that impulse to compassion, must find an outlet.

Those who wish to harbor [[hatred]] vigilantly keep the door of compassion closed in their [[hearts]]. When one is forced to keep the door of compassion closed, there occurs, for want of a better [[analogy]] or word, a withering of [[the soul]] and often times a form of internal [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia schizophrenia] that is very injurious to [[spiritual growth]]. One can say it arrests spiritual growth because that side, that impulse to compassion, must find an outlet.

When one stifles the natural [[impulse]] to [[compassion]] towards some people and not others, there is set up an internal [[conflict]]. This conflict cannot be [[healed]] until that door to compassion is opened. One cannot be an [[integrated]] and complete human being without [[feeling]] compassion for all other human beings. [[Cruelty]] then, is a form of internal [[suicide]]. For anyone who is kind to one person or set of people while at the same time being cruel or harboring cruel [[thoughts]] toward another person or set of people, this person can never find a wholeness, an [[integration]], and a [[balance]] in spiritual living and the inner conflict can certainly stifle, also, [[growth]] and lead to more and more advanced forms of [[insanity]]. This is why, for example, [[soldiers]] in [[warfare]] experience such intense psychological [[trauma]] and why the healing of it is so difficult but the healing can only come through finding and opening the door of [[compassion]] to the [[enemy]].

When one stifles the natural [[impulse]] to [[compassion]] towards some people and not others, there is set up an internal [[conflict]]. This conflict cannot be [[healed]] until that door to compassion is opened. One cannot be an [[integrated]] and complete human being without [[feeling]] compassion for all other human beings. [[Cruelty]] then, is a form of internal [[suicide]]. For anyone who is kind to one person or set of people while at the same time being cruel or harboring cruel [[thoughts]] toward another person or set of people, this person can never find a wholeness, an [[integration]], and a [[balance]] in spiritual living and the inner conflict can certainly stifle, also, [[growth]] and lead to more and more advanced forms of [[insanity]]. This is why, for example, [[soldiers]] in [[warfare]] experience such intense psychological [[trauma]] and why the healing of it is so difficult but the healing can only come through finding and opening the door of [[compassion]] to the [[enemy]].