❓ QUESTION:
I feel a great deal of pity and compassion for the elderly, for people with disabilities, and for those in dire circumstances. Looking at them makes my heart ache. I realize that they are Creators who have chosen this path themselves. Yet, for now, I am unable to react to them with clarity and composure. I am certain there is a Source perspective from which all these people and situations are seen clearly and joyfully. However, I have yet to find it. Perhaps you could provide some keys to help me.
❗️ ANSWER from lee:
The Source’s point of view exists within every individual. And each person interprets it through the lens of their own ego. What you feel is not what the person you are looking at is experiencing. You feel pity for them, whereas they feel something else entirely. Your feeling belongs solely to you. It is not connected to the other person in any way.
In essence, you are experiencing your own internal beliefs, using the other person merely as an occasion to observe your inner convictions.
Consequently, the Source within your Heart is "concerned" with your own reaction rather than the external object of your attention.
The Source understands what you are looking at from the inside, as it both originated and experiences it directly. And as the one who experiences it, the Source sees your pity as a "distortion of belief" rather than a "benefit for another."
You do not know the true reasons why another person has brought themselves to this state. It is possible someone is doing this solely to reflect your pity back to you, without knowing a single thing about you. This is their gift to you in the form of a "reflective role."
Your next level of awareness will lead you toward empathy rather than shared suffering. You will perceive what the other feels, but you will not suffer yourself. At that point, you will use Love as an offering of help, so that the other may feel love through your empathy.
This process will work in such a way that the Source within the other person will feel your Love—which must contain no pain, for otherwise it is not Love—and it will begin to activate within their heart so that they might notice the Source within themselves. In effect, you act as a tuning fork to amplify the Love in the other person, which enables them to rise into the experience of Love. This will be your true service, performed without a drop of negative emotion, but from within your own joy.
