Compassion and Mothers

Before you would do someone harm, consider that this person had a mother.  This mother shared a great deal with your mother, in her values and what she considered precious.  She loved her child and did her best to raise them to represent what is good and honorable within us.  We humans get confused.  We don't always live up to these ideals.  None of us do.  Mothers love us anyway.


Before you inflict harm, think of how your mother would feel if someone harmed you; the compassion she would request on your behalf.  If you can, extend this compassion to the target of your anger.  Through that, you extend compassion to the mother of this person, and through her, to the holy institution of motherhood.  Your compassion is a gift to your very own mother.