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#15457 - 12/18/05 08:22 AM Re: How to be compassionate
Dianne Offline
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Registered: 05/24/04
Posts: 6123
Loc: Arizona
Maybe hidden, random acts of kindness? Like secretly taking in an elderly or busy mother's trash can without her seeing it? Just a thought.

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#15458 - 12/17/05 09:38 PM Re: How to be compassionate
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Registered: 09/22/05
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Dianne, my new neighbor recently commented to me, "boy the garbage collectors here really treat you well." She said this after noticing her garbage can was always brought up to her garage door. I never said a word. A few weeks later she noticed only her trash can and my elderly neighbor Marge's were the only ones taken up. She realized who was doing it and thanked me.

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#15459 - 12/17/05 09:44 PM Re: How to be compassionate
Bluebird Offline
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Registered: 09/20/05
Posts: 2560
Loc: Pagosa Springs, Colorado
Ladybug you are such a sweetie!! ((HUG))

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#15460 - 12/18/05 12:21 AM Re: How to be compassionate
Dianne Offline
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Registered: 05/24/04
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Loc: Arizona
Ditto. You really are a giving, caring person.

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#15461 - 12/18/05 12:56 AM Re: How to be compassionate
Dotsie Offline
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Registered: 07/09/08
Posts: 23647
Loc: Maryland
Vi, great idea. I love it. I am going to follow your suggestion and try to be more compassionate this season. I love homework. I'm one of those weird people who ask for homework when I take Bible studies, etc. I also think ministers should end their sermons with weekly homework. That's how change happens. You have to start practicing a new behavior. Thanks for the idea.

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#15462 - 12/18/05 03:23 AM Re: How to be compassionate
Vi Offline
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Registered: 05/21/05
Posts: 252
Love/begins in the heart and wells outward. Even a smile can be received as an act of love and compassion by someone who is having a bad day. Remember that song from Sunday school, the words said, "This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine."

If we all take up shining the love from our hearts, it will become catching, 100th Monkey style.

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#15463 - 12/18/05 04:44 AM Re: How to be compassionate
Dianne Offline
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Registered: 05/24/04
Posts: 6123
Loc: Arizona
I love to smile at strangers and especially here in TN because you always get a smile back. Now in France, if you do that they suspect you of something and give you a really strange look!

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#15464 - 12/18/05 04:46 AM Re: How to be compassionate
Bluebird Offline
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Registered: 09/20/05
Posts: 2560
Loc: Pagosa Springs, Colorado
Almost everyone in my town smiles and says hi, even to strangers.

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#15465 - 12/18/05 08:48 AM Re: How to be compassionate
Vi Offline
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Registered: 05/21/05
Posts: 252
In the little town I live near everyone smiles at everyone too. When I was in New York City one time I decided to smile at everyone I saw. They looked at me like I was the axe murderer. But that's been a while. I hope it's changed.

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#15466 - 12/18/05 09:12 AM Re: How to be compassionate
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Registered: 11/08/03
Posts: 3512
Loc: outer space
I have smiled at people all over the world and at first they sometimes looked at me strangely, but if I just gave them another smile, even New Yorkers and Frenchmen eventually smiled back.

Like Vi said, it's catching.

smile

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