That you are meant to love everyone does not mean that you are to let others take your energy nor that you are to give your freedom away. Their needs are not to overwrite your sense of freedom. Someone else's unhappiness is not to become yours. Their unhappiness is not to overtake your happiness. It is not loving of you to give away your happiness and accept pain instead. Nor do you remove someone's pain by taking it on as your own.

Keep your consciousness intact.

Those who suffer do not mean to take away your energy, but naturally they want it. They are in pain. But you are not to trade your joy for someone else's misery. They are not to give their misery to you nor are you to accept it.

The saints who spent their whole lives in helping others less happy or healthy than they kept their own happiness and health solvent. What good would they have been to be in the same state as those they were to help?

Other people's emotions belong to them. You are not meant to be overcome with compassion. You are not meant to weep another's tears. You are to be possessed of unimpassioned compassion. Give away your food and your house before you give away your sense of well-being. You do not share peace by losing yours. Give peace. Give solace. Give help. Keep yourself intact.

Remind yourself that you are in service to Me. In service to Me, you do not weaken your heart for the presumed sake of another. Your heart helps another when it stays strong. Overridden, compassion becomes pity, and pity is not beneficial. You do not want to stir someone's pity for themselves nor do you want to develop it in yourself. Pity does not heal. Pity is not love. It makes one above another. It is a lowering.

Christ did not pity. He respected. He healed. He helped others to rise to him. He lifted them up. He was a man of consciousness. He walked the streets where his robes could be touched but not His vision. He did not adapt his consciousness to the ill. He raised theirs.

Christ did not catch someone's illness. If someone was lame, he did not take on their limp. He did not commiserate. He healed. He did not wring his hands. He healed. You may think it was his hands that healed but it was his consciousness. He did not give his consciousness away. He did not stew in commiseration. He healed. He did not reduce himself to the state of another. He did not pat their head nor hold their hand and weep with them. He radiated his light. He healed. He did not allow another to dim his light. He healed.

What does this say to you? You are not to make another's woes yours. It is very human to do that, but it is not Godly.

You are to give but not sacrifice. When you sacrifice, you place too great a burden upon another. Love does not sacrifice. It knows not of sacrifice. The idea of sacrifice is of the ego. The soul knows not of sacrifice. The heart gives, but it does not sacrifice nor lose its bearings. The heart multiplies. It does not take away. A mother who gives up her life for her child is not sacrificing. Christ did not sacrifice. He was so aligned with Me that all were his children and he did what emboldened him. Sacrifice is too little. Love is another matter.