Why do so many humans struggle with the concept of compassion?

[Sacred Fool]

so if I refuse to be a "sheep", then that automatically puts me on the unintended path of being a "wolf". What if I think that whole polarity dynamic is stupid and perverse, and have no desire to be either? Not much of a "free will universe" if the only choices are predator, prey, or sinkhole. Polarity is for batteries, AKA, fuel sources used to run a machine. I am a person. I am not a fuel source used to run a machine, or a battery to power some stupid reality matrix that feeds off a misery dynamic.

Some would see it a bit differently--and less spasmodically.  You say you're a person.  But maybe you are a soul playing the part of a person?  As a person you may have the energy to do this and that, however, as a soul it's spiritual polarity that enables you to do whatever it is your soul might wish to do in this world.


Your binary characterization of sheep and wolves which you correlate these with + and - polarization is a tiny and closed system.  What you're overlooking is holiness: wholeness, healing, communion with the soul.

Those who work with the closed system are working under the assumption that the individual self is a closed system. However, the higher self resides within the open heart. It is closer to you than your own breathing or your own heartbeat. Now, because the higher self resting in the heart is under its beneficent influence, the preponderant inspiration from contact with the higher self shall have to do with love because choosing love over fear, choosing service to others over service to self, choosing radiance over self-defense, is that which polarizes an entity positively and enables that entity to be ready for graduation.

(S channeling)

I am Q’uo, and I am now with this instrument. The practice of the daily meditation is in relation to worldly activity something of a retreat. It is where one goes for that kind of nourishment which is not of this world, and we cannot stress enough the importance of allowing this world to be imbued with a coloration which reflects all that is holy in the life of the spirit. There is a warm welcome that always awaits within the inner temple, and yet over and over again one finds within this inner temple doorways leading out, and, my brothers and my sisters, it is given to you as those who have volunteered to undergo this experience and this density that is the third that you shall go forth and that you shall bare your breast to this world. There is not a plan which we can recommend that will solve all problems you encounter here. There is not a solution which can be bought, studied, practiced and perfected. There is, however, available to you this one constant resource, and that is your intent to heal, to be healed, and to allow the effect of your healing to radiate outwards. This requires a kind of vulnerability which runs counter to practically everything one learns of the necessity for self-defense within the world.

The world does seem such a dangerous place and it does seem folly to expose one to it with the fullness of intent we are recommending. But it is just this folly which is at the core of the creation itself, for in the creation the Creator has exposed Itself in a way which is inconceivable and utterly unpredictable. Within the chaos of a seething creation the one steady factor is the intent. Your intent is a power which accrues to you as your birthright in the Creator, and it is through your intent that you participate, for better or for worse, in the drama that is the creation.

I'm not sure you'll find much here to guide you, but it's worth a shot.


  

I think people in general struggle with the concept of having compassion for themselves, their relationship with their own self then is projected upon their perception of their other-self.

Do you think people have trouble with this concept because their heart centers are inactive, or are their heart centers inactive because they are struggling with compassion, or...?