Home About us Contact us Tell a Friend Print this page Site map

SAY HELLO AND GOODBYE TO SORROW

Sorrow is part of life; inseparable and unavoidable, yet manageable and for the most part can be mended.  Habitually many strive to avoid sorrow and run away from situations of grief and loss.  But, let me tell you, the goblet of sorrow and the cup of joy are interconnected, pouring into one another, exchanging hands.  A cosmic fact, can’t run away from it, can’t ignore.  If you do, you will pay the price.

No matter how much you achieve and accumulate of life’s material wealth, fame, academic degrees and political power, still, sorrow will intrude as disease, mortality, injury, loss of possession, separation, what have you.  Clinging won’t help either; no matter how tight your grasp, it can’t hold what it is grasping for good, not even for long.

Talking sorrow on the national and cosmic levels, turning away remaining  aloof, you will lose the great energy of compassion.  Compassion means equal energy for all.  It connects people together in a fellowship where they work together, toil together, chant and dance together, hold hands and build for the present and for the future.  You will experience the joy and bountiful dimensions of empathy where you sense what I sense and I sense what you sense.  Out of these encounters come great emotions to help and heal.

Don’t be afraid to look sorrow in the eye.  Don’t run away; deal with it.  Albert Schwitzer spent the better part of his life in Lambarene in Africa helping the destitute children and forsaken adults stricken by famine and disease.  He lived to be 90, told his visitors and wrote in his memoirs that it struck him as incomprehensible that he lived a happy life while so many people around wrestling with care and suffering.  In not turning away and helping them cope with their frailty, poverty and pain, Albert Schwitzer’s sorrow transformed into compassion with the reward of inner joy and a happy life.

A Fact:  the moment you accept sorrow and deal with it for what it is and help alleviate it, sorrow changes to compassion with a great energy lift, inner peace, joy and content.