“When we act from the heart, we know that every human being is on a sacred journey of evolution, and that all circumstances are teachers who meet us on the path.”

— White Buffalo

White Buffalo tells us that when we are heart centered, we understand that compassion has nothing to do with rescuing others from their pain or allowing ourselves to be manipulated out of fear. Instead, the compassionate heart knows that pity and sympathy are artificial feelings, born of misunderstanding the human journey. Pity dishonors the unique lessons each of us are here to learn. When we judge the life experience of others as wrong, and seek to rescue them from their problems, our motivation often has more to do with our own discomfort at witnessing pain. It is only when we learn to honor all human journeys as sacred that we can experience true compassion. White Buffalo teaches us that compassion has its foundation in seeing the other as fully powerful to transform his or her life. He defines compassion as knowing what it would take for the sufferer to overcome his pain and fear of uncertainty in that moment, and make a choice that is self-respecting, self-honoring and self-loving, in spite of what the sufferer has lost or what challenges he faces. Only when we are able to see the other as powerful can our behavior be consistent with the truth that all crises are enormous opportunities for growth and transformation. Only with this truth as the foundation of our awareness, we are then able to know when giving is destructive to another’s evolution, and when it is actually supportive and helpful.

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