{"id":4461,"date":"2014-04-19T05:44:02","date_gmt":"2014-04-19T05:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/flightofthesoul\/?p=4461"},"modified":"2014-04-19T05:44:02","modified_gmt":"2014-04-19T05:44:02","slug":"the-inspiration-of-compassion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/flightofthesoul\/2014\/04\/the-inspiration-of-compassion.html","title":{"rendered":"The Inspiration of Compassion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That energy of love&#8217;s purest grace is made manifest through our soul&#8217;s code working in concert with our nature.\u00a0 How we cultivate this powerful force of our being relates the ease at which we move through the world lending our imprint. Cultivating inspiration is a practice like anything else. Acting on the inspiration where the miracles happen.<\/p>\n<p>Artists\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/May_Sun\">May Sun<\/a>\u00a0and Richard Wyatt have captured the spirit of Robert Kennedy in the middle of Los Angeles with there work in a public space called the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.misenberg.com\/portfolio-public-projects\/robert-f-kennedy-inspiration-park\/\">Kennedy Inspiration Park.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0The beauty of Los Angeles is the incredible experience of its people in action.\u00a0 Each block brings something magnificent and the collection of brilliant minds are endlessly stretching into the earth to create, imagine and present great beauty.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Melanie Lutz's Flight of the Soul\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/flightofthesoul\/files\/2013\/05\/2013-03-20_18-53-59_234-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-SNOgvOrnY0w\/UYIJAeHDQtI\/AAAAAAAACy0\/siNMo1sRy1k\/s1600\/101102-128.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-SNOgvOrnY0w\/UYIJAeHDQtI\/AAAAAAAACy0\/siNMo1sRy1k\/s320\/101102-128.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-8VMYlEam99w\/UYIJy2pmFoI\/AAAAAAAACzE\/6B6k43pD8dU\/s1600\/thumbs_rfkparkmain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-8VMYlEam99w\/UYIJy2pmFoI\/AAAAAAAACzE\/6B6k43pD8dU\/s320\/thumbs_rfkparkmain.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know about the rest of you but letting down into that fierce space of full vulnerability is a practice and the support offered by the angels of our better natures, our cities, our communities is a blessing. \u00a0This inspiring park on a corridor of Wilshire Blvd. in Los Angeles that has seen so much during the course of its history is a light to those who meet its intentions.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Kennedy had many gifts, one of which was his ability to turn a phrase with eloquence and passion and the quote highlighted from him by the artists of this memorial park in the City of Los Angeles is a pure jolt of hope in the hearts of those who get to experience it. \u00a0From the homeless, to the kids congregating to impress each other with their skateboard tricks, it stands for compassionate acts of personal justice where one individual takes the necessary action with love to stand in the face of injustice righting the wrong.<\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-S-315vc20yI\/UU_ylv9QB7I\/AAAAAAAACv4\/FV5MNUos_Oo\/s320\/2013-03-20_18-54-25_123.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\u201cFew will have the greatness to bend history, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And in the total of all those acts will be written the history ofthis generation.. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other\u00a0 from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.\u201d<br \/>\nYou find what you are looking for. \u00a0Take today to be vulnerable to what you don&#8217;t know. \u00a0Take today to share a smile with someone you don&#8217;t know. \u00a0Take today to act when what you see before you would benefit from you extending yourself with love.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>LOVE, MEL<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That energy of love&#8217;s purest grace is made manifest through our soul&#8217;s code working in concert with our nature.\u00a0 How we cultivate this powerful force of our being relates the ease at which we move through the world lending our imprint. 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