Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Compassion for others

I found this quote yesterday and it strikes me as important to remember.  

"There are people in this world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."  -Mahatma Gandhi

We often want others to take what we want to give them.  Sometimes people can only see what they need not what we think they need.  This is the nature of hunger and dissatisfaction. It is not their fault.  It is the fault of their condition.  We must have compassion to understand dissatisfaction.  It reminds me of what a mentor once told me, "The greediest people in the world are the richest and the poorest."  Wise woman she is.