One day a student asked the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi what would be the most important quality for a human being to develop.
The Maharishi answered, to the student’s surprise, the most important quality is discernment. If you do not have discernment, you cannot determine what is important and what is not.
Compassion is seen as a virtue, but if we exercise compassion without discrimination, many times we will end up wasting our energies, doing favours for people who do not appreciate it, or do not return our energy. After all, you cannot help people who do not want to help themselves.
When we use compassion as well as discernment, we can use our energies in a way that multiplies them.
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