You must not make others’ suffering your own. The Great Ones were compassion incarnate, yet they did not take on others’ suffering. They saw beyond suffering. If the Great Ones had taken on others’ suffering, they would not have been Great Ones. They would have been more like everyone else. But, of course, the Great Ones did not make a practice of woe. Nor must you.
The Great Ones were not indifferent. They simply saw beyond what was evident. They did not bow down to suffering. They did not make it their own. They did not make themselves unhappy because someone else was unhappy. The Great Ones were not enablers. They did not say, “There, there.”
If the Great Ones had not risen above suffering, they would have elevated suffering. They knew better than to honor suffering as virtuous. And yet they were compassion incarnate. And yet they saw beyond suffering. Their vision was too great to see what everyone saw. They did not keep those who suffered in place. They elevated them from suffering. They gave healing. By their very presence, they healed.
The Great Ones did not get themselves caught in a vortex of suffering. Had the Great Ones honored suffering, who would have listened to them? What advances in the world would they have made? The Great Ones were humble, yet they were not humble to suffering. They did not hold suffering in great stead. They did not make a big fuss over it. They gave sustenance instead.
What good would the Great Ones have done if they lost sleep over the suffering in the world? Wherein would their greatness have lain? Their greatness did not lie in suffering, beloveds.
The Great Ones were models, beloved, not of suffering but of moving forward in life. Buddha who stayed under the Banyan tree nevertheless made strides across the Universe. Christ strode from one place to another. The Great Ones uplifted the world. They knew far more than to commiserate with it. “Walk,” they said.
They did not ignore suffering. They alleviated it.
Their tie to Me was so great that they saw Me far more than they saw suffering. They saw Me, and they saw Me in everyone. Their vision was wonderful.
The Great Ones served humanity, yet they were not at the beck and call of suffering. Compassion and suffering are two different things.
The Great Ones’ words were good, and yet they gave more than words. They were roses of the world. They gave an emanation that was so sweet that all were comforted by it. They didn’t do anything really but be as they were. They were representing God to God. How much simpler could it have been? By virtue of their presence and their steadfastness of holiness, they raised the bar of the world, as it were. Their focus was not on suffering, and yet the lame could walk. Beloveds, the Great Ones saw to the end of the rainbow, and so must you.
They did not enter into the world of the suffering. They did not enter into havoc. They moved through suffering and havoc, just the way Moses parted the Red Sea so that all could walk through it and reach the land on the other side. They brought some peace to the world. They loved the individual, and yet they walked right through suffering and brought peace to the world.
And so they now still bring peace to your heart. The Great Ones showed what was possible, and they have never stopped. They were formed in My image, the same image you are formed in.