Straight Browsing from the Library: Compassion for Life by Philip W. Mason

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During life, everyone experiences difficult struggles and pain. The relief from this pain can come when either we recognize that we are only human and make an appropriate change for the better or when another person helps us recognize it and encourages us to make that change. These two phenomena are called self compassion and compassion and are great powers that people possess to make life better. They are the first steps to take towards a healing process that results in one being able to enjoy and share all the wondrous experiences that life has to offer.

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Love can be a strange and wonderful thing. When one is feeling love, usually many emotions are felt all at the same time, some increasing, others decreasing with time. These changes can make the experience a complex one and unique each time. The richness to the feeling of love is partly due to there being various types of love. Psychologists sometimes classify love as having three different components to it. One example is from Robert Sternberg whose three components are passion, intimacy, and commitment and are combined to form his “Triangular Theory of Love.” I have my own theory, which like Sternberg’s, has three components. My components are passion, self-compassion and compassion: the three passions.

Since love is most often associated with happiness, I have an idea (theory) and three associated equations which relate happiness with the three passions. We already know that suffering is related to pain and self-compassion (or compassion).

Suffering = Pain / Self-compassion
Suffering = Pain / Compassion

Relief is the inverse of suffering, and so when the previous two equations are reframed in terms of relief, as opposed to suffering, they can be expressed as follows:

Relief = Self-compassion / Pain
Relief = Compassion / Pain

We also have experienced situations where relief can cause happiness, so if we replace relief with happiness we end up with the following.

Happiness = Self-compassion / Pain
Happiness = Compassion / Pain
Happiness = Passion / Pain

I have added in a third equation for the emotion of passion which, in this case, is the strong emotion associated with romantic love. For these equations, as the three passions increase, happiness follows right along.

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During life, everyone experiences difficult struggles and pain. The relief from this pain can come when either we recognize that we are only human and make an appropriate change for the better or when another person helps us recognize it and encourages us to make that change. These two phenomena are called self compassion and compassion and are great powers that people possess to make life better. They are the first steps to take towards a healing process that results in one being able to enjoy and share all the wondrous experiences that life has to offer.

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