We can easily become loyal to our suffering … but it's not the end of the path.
We can bring a heart of understanding and compassion to a world that needs it so much.
Tending to ourselves, we tend the world. Tending the world, we tend ourselves.
As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home.
For most of us, generosity is a quality that must be developed. We have to respect that it will grow gradually; otherwise our spirituality can become idealistic and imitative, acting out the image of generosity before it has become genuine.
We need a repeated discipline, a genuine training, in order to let go of our old habits of mind and to find and sustain a new way of seeing.