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I'd like to share a chapter from my book about how this applies to each and every one of us with an excerpt from my Make A Difference with the Power of Compassion gift book.

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For most people, the problem with being compassionate is that we fear if we offer it we'll somehow be condoning and encouraging hurtful behavior. Yet, in a story like Teddy's, we can see right away how a life can be changed for the better, with changes lasting the span of a lifetime.

The real power of compassion is choosing it in the midst of difficult situations involving behaviors that we find upsetting and entirely off-putting. How can one be expected to be compassionate in the midst of fear?

How indeed? And yet this is what this story is all about. While it is fictional, it is most possible. From the letters I've received since the Make A Difference movie first appeared, I know that examples of profound compassion happen all the time, with people like you and me.

If you've received this book as a gift, it's probably because you are making a difference in people's lives all the time. Have you stopped to think about the wonderful changes you're initiating?

Wouldn't it be nice if it happened even more often? That's why I'm writing. Because it is you and I, the people who read books like this, who need to reach for the power of compassion even more than we already do. We already get it. Yet to have more people making a difference, we must keep doing it.

When others around us, children or adults, behave unskillfully or inappropriately, with actions that are intended to affront or cause harm, they need our understanding and compassion.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them. - Mother Teresa

This is the fork in the road, where we can choose compassion... or judgment. It's important to understand that compassion does not mean that you condone hurtful or unskilled behavior. It's reaching into yourself to relate to people with a heartfelt energy of compassion that they can hear and assimilate.

Every time I choose compassion, I am deeply astounded, not only at the power of this force, but that it really works to shift and change a situation.

We often miss an important point. As you go to that compassionate place within yourself to look at the person who is doing something upsetting, you are not only giving compassion, but you are also receiving what you've just given. You cannot launch a negative attitude or a judgment at someone and still feel peaceful and good about yourself. In those moments, it's impossible to feel lovable or safe.

Within every one of us is a still small voice. It's a spiritual connection that cannot be seen or touched. Yet we have a way to verify invisible things by utilizing a faculty more powerful and reliable than the five senses of consciousness. We are touched by each other's stories. When we are touched, we access compassion. Compassion is our truest nature and our purest connection to Spirit.

This connection never causes harm to one's self or to others