Compassion saved my life!

 I realized young that staying angry at all the people in my life that had wronged me would just cost me my life one way or another.

So, in my mid 20s I made a conscious choice to learn to let all that go and move on.

In other words Jesus' Christian Brotherhood and the compassion path of Buddha (Buddha likely thought of this first) and Jesus then answered with Forgiveness which is what the middle Eastern mind needed for human progress then and now.

I realized that revenge for any harm done to me or to others I loved would only end my life. I realized most harm was done to me and to others in complete ignorance. It's sort of like blaming dumb animals for their behaviors when they don't know anything else. People with PTSD and who do often very bad things are sort of like dumb animals in their PTSD twisted behavior.

That they have harmed you or me is their karma and they will suffer for that whether they understand what they have done or not.

So, their own karma of doing bad things will destroy their lives. Why should I destroy my life getting revenge too?

Then two lives or more will be destroyed.

So, during my 20s I went about seeing how I could move forward through Christian Brotherhood and through Buddhist compassion towards myself and towards all beings in the past, present and future throughout the whole universe and I succeeded in this.

This was on the back of one of the Dalai Lama's books on a table next to my bed.

It is called: "The Dalai Lama's Book of Inner Peace"

On the back flap on the outside is also this statement that I read today which says:

"The only true guardian of peace lies within: a sense of concern and responsibility for your own future and an altruistic concern for the well being of others."

In other words to me this says (among other things) is: "You are your own guardian of peace and no one else really. If you don't take the responsibility upon yourself to create your own peace then who is going to do that? Guarding your own peace creates not only your future but also the future of everyone around you especially as you move in an altruistic way through your life and the lives of others along the way."

OR a more Christian way of saying this might be: "God Helps those who help themselves"

By God's Grace