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Composition: How to help the indifferent and those who suffer from their indifference?

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(1) Compassion is an active helper.
(2) But what about those who do not see, do not hear, do not feel when it hurts and feels bad for another?
(3) An outsider, as they consider everyone except themselves, yes, perhaps, their family, to which, however, they are also often indifferent.
(4) How to help both those who suffer from indifference and the indifferent themselves?
(5) From childhood to educate - first of all oneself - so as to respond to someone else's misfortune and rush to help those who are in trouble.
(6) And neither in life, nor in pedagogy, nor in art should we consider sympathy as a demagnetizing sensitivity, sentimentality alien to us.
(7) Sympathy is a great human ability and need, a blessing and a duty.
(8) People who are endowed with such an ability or who anxiously feel a lack of it in themselves, people who have cultivated the talent of kindness in themselves, those who know how to turn sympathy into assistance, live more difficult than insensitive.
(9) And more restless.
(10) But their conscience is clear.
(11) They tend to raise good children.
(12) They are generally respected by those around them.
(13) But even if this rule is violated and those around them do not understand, and the children deceive their hopes, they will not deviate from their moral position.
(14) It seems to the insensitive that they feel good.
(15) They are said to be endowed with armor that protects them from unnecessary worries and unnecessary worries.
(16) But it only seems to them, they are not endowed, but deprived.
(17) Sooner or later - as it comes around, it will respond!
(18) I recently had the good fortune to meet a wise old doctor.
(19) He often appears in his department on weekends and holidays, not out of emergency, but out of spiritual need.
(20) He talks with patients not only about their illness, but also on difficult life topics.
(21) He knows how to give them hope and courage.
(22) Long-term observations showed him that a person who never sympathized with anyone, did not empathize with anyone's suffering, finding himself in front of his own misfortune, turns out to be unprepared for it.
(23) Pitiful and helpless he meets such a test.
(24) Selfishness, callousness, indifference, heartlessness cruelly avenge themselves.
(25) Blind fear.
(26) Loneliness.
(27) Belated remorse.
(28) One of the most important human feelings is empathy.
(29) And let it not remain just sympathy, but become an action.
(30) Assistance.
(31) To those who need it, who are ill, although he is silent, one must come to the rescue, without waiting for a call.
(32) There is no radio receiver stronger and more sensitive than the human soul.
(33) If it is tuned to a wave of high humanity.
(According to S. Lvov).

The writing:

How to learn one of the most humane qualities - compassion?
Can it be taught? What is true empathy?
These problems are raised in his article by the well-known publicist S. Lvov.

I will focus on the problem of active, active compassion.

The relevance of this problem today is undeniable. Addressing a wide audience

S. Lvov with restrained pathos, but, at the same time, uncompromisingly condemns a person's indifference to other people's troubles and sufferings. The author gives a vivid example of selfless service to people - a story about an old doctor. S. Lvov contrasts this type of personality with selfish, callous, heartless people. Sooner or later, the author of the article believes, a person’s insensitivity will return like a boomerang (“as it comes around, it will respond!”).

The well-known prose writer, using parceling (24-27 sentences), evaluative vocabulary (pathetic, helpless), original metaphor (radio receiver - human soul), draws the attention of us, readers, to the problem of the immorality of human indifference. The article urges everyone not to stay away from human grief.

And I can't help but agree with him. In fact, compassion, empathy, co-experience are words of the same order. So - means together, at the same time, together to overcome life's hardships with those who are in dire need of it. You are stronger and you can turn your shoulder to the weaker - isn't that the meaning of human co-existence? Otherwise, life will turn into existence (you just eat, sleep, everything else does not concern you).

Recently I happened to read the memoirs of contemporaries about Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. The noblest person… He never stayed away from human grief. Selfless work during the cholera epidemic, the construction of hospitals for ordinary peasants, schools for peasant children, constant care for numerous relatives, for everyone who turned to the famous writer - is this not an example of effective compassion ?!

Chekhov's hero, doctor Dymov from the story "The Jumper", saves a child with diphtheria at the cost of his own life.

Are there many such people in our lives? From my own, albeit small, experience, I know that now the majority are characterized by selfishness, spiritual callousness, indifference. It is no coincidence that today the slang word "don't care" reflects life position modern youth, not the best part of it. People sometimes live according to the principle "My hut is on the edge - I don't know anything." Otherwise, how to explain the fact known to me from the TV show: the daughter kicks her own mother out of the house, dooms her to vagrancy and calmly talks about it with journalists. The woman who gave life to this creature is slowly dying from the onset of gangrene ... The daughter feels neither compassion nor remorse. Who will teach such a person mercy? And how can such a person be considered a Human?

I think there is no answer to this question. Everything starts from childhood.

The ability to show compassion useful quality human nature. Unfortunately, there are many people in society who do not see, do not hear, do not feel the pain of others. How to help those suffering from indifference and the indifferent themselves?

The ability to empathize is instilled in the soul from childhood. A child should not grow up indifferent, so the example of parents plays a big role in this. Each of us must be able to respond to someone else's misfortune, to rush to the aid of those who find themselves in a difficult situation.

Sympathy is an important ability and need, it is a blessing and a duty.

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People endowed with a good heart live more restlessly than insensitive people. Mercy does not allow one to pass by in need of support. The manifestation of participation makes life more difficult, but the conscience of such people is clear. As a rule, they bring up good children and are respected in society. Even if it happens that others do not understand their actions, and the children do not justify their hopes, they will not compromise their moral principles.

Insensitive at first glance, life is much easier. They are like an armor protected from unnecessary worries and unnecessary worries. Protection from external negativity is not an ability, but a deprivation.

After all, sooner or later, an indifferent person also needs help, but do they have the right to count on it?

I recently had the opportunity to meet a wise doctor. An elderly specialist often visits his department on weekends. He goes there out of spiritual necessity: he talks with patients on a wide variety of topics, knows how to inspire hope for healing, set them up in a positive way later life. In the course of many years of observation, the doctor came to the conclusion that people who did not have the opportunity to empathize and sympathize with someone else's misfortune are not ready for their own trials. They feel miserable and helpless before the blows of fate. Heartlessness, callousness, selfishness and indifference that have settled in the heart, cruelly take revenge on the owner, endowing him with blind fear and loneliness. After realizing one's wrongness, belated repentance usually comes ...

Compassion can be attributed to the most important properties of the human soul. But it should be expressed not only in words of support, but also in actions. Many people do not burden others with their sufferings, they endure them silently. We must go to their aid, not waiting for the call. There is no radio stronger than the human soul, you just need to tune it to the appropriate wave.

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TO THOSE WHO SUFFER

Is there at least one among you or among your friends and acquaintances who would not respond to the call, if we are talking about someone in need of compassion and sympathy at the moment when waves of sadness crush the last stronghold of the material; or at the hour when the most hidden depths of suffering resound and the soul is left alone with God; or when no human help is possible anymore; or when everything that lies between life and death, no matter how much patience it requires, has already been experienced by this soul?

If memory can recall such moments vividly enough, won't it remind you of those desperate promises you made to your better self, your God, to make amends for the wrong you've done, or to do something virtuous that could change the course of your life if in this way you can get relief?

And it may happen that even death will be welcomed at such an hour, if there is no other way to end the suffering of the soul or body.

At such a moment in your depths, without knowing it, you have come into contact with the Divine Essence much closer and more intimately than ever before and than you can ever do it again, unless similar conditions arise. And in that touch you were given something that you never had before; something that separated you forever from the material self that you had served until that time. Whatever name you call this gift, whether it was an expression of divine Love, Sympathy or mutual understanding, it does not matter: truly, in all cases you have been gifted with a part of the Divine essence.

If you have allowed this gift to lie dormant, or have used it only when one of your personal friends needed it, or if some national disaster has knocked on the door of your heart with such force that you had to open this door in self-defense , then you lose this greatest given to a person opportunity for which a very strict account would be required.

It should not matter to you who or what suffers or suffered, what caused this suffering, and how far the sympathy awakened in you will eventually lead you. One thing is important for you - at that moment or hour, as soon as you were graciously allowed to become a conduit for the transfer of this gift of the Holy Spirit to another human soul, you were able to radiate the same Divine substance, thanks to which you became like God for a while.

Your own liberation from the infinitely greater suffering you have ever endured was hanging in the balance the moment you heard the silent call to share this Divine gift with another. And you should not be at all concerned about the results of the use of this gift, whether it concerns spiritual or material things. The responsibility for these consequences rests with God, who prompted you to such action in that never-forgotten hour when you plunged into the abyss of your own suffering.

Although you did not really care about this gift and at times were forgetful and ungrateful, you still believed and continue to believe that someday the time will come when you will NOT forget and when Appreciation and Gratitude will become your inalienable qualities.

Believing this, try also to realize that repeated efforts can lead others to the fact that they will no longer forget what you did for them when they were also in the "abyss of suffering."

Therefore, you have no reason to worry about what the performance of any good deed will turn out to be, whatever its temporal aspect.

Tall or short, white or black, educated or ignorant, human beings become equal when it comes to the pressing issues of their complex lives, and there are several notes in the grand scale that every soul must answer.

Didn't I hear you ask, “But what about the vice of ingratitude? Does not such indifference on the part of one force the same indifference on the other? Ah, My children, again I say to you: do not worry about the consequences of any righteous deed. You can safely leave these consequences to the Giver who rewarded you in the hours of your delight and exaltation, for He has other gifts in His power, and the sympathy you express can prepare the ground in the soul for the acceptance of the gift of Gratitude - that key that can open the tightly locked the door of a heart dried up by the cruelty, coldness and indifference of this world. You may rejoice in the gratitude of others, but you have no right to demand this gift from them.

Very few, even among the most orthodox Christians, have grasped the real meaning of one of the most intimate, occult sayings of the Master Jesus: cold water in My Name, he is already My disciple.”

The same as such a cup of cold water is for the lips of a weary, tormented traveler, parched by the heat of the desert, is the dew of sympathy and help to a lonely soul in its grave suffering. And if this sympathy is given in the name of Christ, in other words, strengthened by His Power, then the spiritual power of Patience is transmitted along with it, the power to rise and defeat those limiting elementals that plunged this soul into the abyss of suffering.

You are on the verge of the birth of great opportunities, which can only be compared with the baptism of Fire, which descended on the disciples of Jesus in the “upper chamber” and now descends on all people whose hearts are open to its flame.

The flames and the language in which the extraordinary speeches were uttered during that fiery flood were of the same nature: both were signs of the power of Christ, who came to convey the knowledge of this wonderful new language - the language of human brotherhood.

A man or woman in the midst of suffering is a Christ-given opportunity for all who are able to hear the call of the afflicted. And God bless that human soul who, having heard this call, will refuse to answer it, for when the blind rulers of the evolutionary law pronounce judgment, there will be no forgiveness for this soul. And then a protector will not arise in the name of Christ, that is, overshadowed by the power of the Name, the power of these tongues of flame - the power of Christ himself, which was bestowed upon her when God the Son united God in man with man in God at that moment "in the abyss".

It doesn't matter if you are a member of a church, an organization or just a free person, the main thing is your ability to hear the call of your higher self.

This call may sound in this moment from My mouth or the next moment from the mouth of some child, a beggar, a street woman, or a criminal imprisoned; but however and from wherever it sounds, your memory should bring you back to some measure of your own experience and cause you to respond to this call, and then forget what you have done if you are inclined to expect some outward expression of gratitude. .

It will be difficult for you to hear this call if your inner ear is still sealed with a sense of separation - if you believe that the separation between bodies extends to souls.

Only the realization of the essential unity of all people and creatures can open the ears and eyes of the soul and finally put an end to suffering.