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Divine Compassion

What is compassion
It is only when the psychic consciousness is all-powerful in
the being that compassion for all that needs help, in whatever
domain, and gratitude for all that manifests the divine presence
and grace, in whatever form, are expressed in all their original
and luminous purity, without mixing compassion with any trace
of condescension or gratitude with any sense of inferiority.
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The Divine is everywhere and in all, He is all. Yes, in His es-
sence and His supreme reality. But in the world of progressive
material manifestation, one must identify not with the Divine
as He is, but with the Divine as He will be.
CWM 15: 277-78

Compassion is the equivalent of miséricorde. It is a pity
full of strength and kindness, a pity that pardons and makes
amends, forgets all offences and wants always what is best for
everyone.

CWM 15: 277-78

Divine Sorrow
Well, the Divine's state of compassion is translated in the
psychic consciousness by a sorrow that is not egoistic, a sor-
row that is the expression of the identification through sympa-
thy with universal sorrow. In the Prayers and Meditations I have
said this (in one of the later ones), I have described at length an
experience in which way I say, "I wept... the sweetest tears of
my life", because it was not over myself that I wept, you under-
stand. Well, that is it. You know, human beings always suffer
because of egoistic causes, humanly. Even when, for instance (I

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