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Old 10-06-2011, 05:48 AM
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Originally Posted by Xan
hmmm... well... Since what we give our attention to becomes our own reality, does one really want to delve into the worst possibilities of suffering in the world? And what for? Who and what would be served by that focus?

As for me I prefer to fill my consciousness with the compassion side of suffering.


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It isn't about the worst possible, it's only the way of the world. It matters little where I focus I focus on the stars above while unbeknownst to me, yet a very real experience for another is such agony, no more or less so than that star I gaze upon.
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