Lately, I came across a concept something along the lines of: “If you have a certain degree of consciousness or spiritual awareness some things or relationships in your life should be different.” You should make peace with your family members. You should always be healthy and happy. And you should have figured out life overall.
Maybe the person thinks there should be more peace and harmony.
Of course, it´s nice if you have this. I would completely agree,
but what if reality shows something different right now?
People sometimes tell me something about their own spiritual concepts, to not fully engage in what is happening at the moment.
Some situations in life are just deep stuff and not rainbows and roses.
If you say there should be, you are not really letting in what is right now.
As another example, most people would agree that there should be peace in Ukraine, but in fact there isn´t right now.
So what to do with this kind of information?
To me, there is something like a 4 step process if something happens, that I believe shouldn´t happen.
1.) Receive the „message“, let it in, and don’t block it out using any (spiritual) concepts you have.
2.) Don´t resist it, let the emotions arise, which are arising.
3.) After you felt these emotions sufficiently, see what you can change about the situation.
4.) If you did what you could, or if you can´t do anything, completely surrender to what´s happening.
If you see suffering happen in other people’s lives it´s not compassionate to tell them that they are not spiritual or evolved enough, because then their life would be different.
People saying something like this, don´t deal with the pain, that situations bring up for them.
Compassion means being able to be present with the person and the pain the person is experiencing, with no judgment, not wanting to change anything.
Then you can see if you can help the person in any way, and change things for the better.