title: Awakening the Kind Heart: How to Meditate on Compassion
author:  Kathleen McDonald 
description: "This book will help you find happiness and true satisfaction, and help you live a life of benefit to others." (Lama Zopa Rinpoche, author of How to Be Happy and Wholesome Fear)<br /><br />"Through clear explanations, straightforward practices, and basic goodheartedness, this book explains how to navigate the path to love, even under very trying circumstances. Truly, there is nothing more needed at this time-our very future may depend upon it." (Susan Piver, author of The Wisdom of a Broken Heart)<br /><br />"Kathleen McDonald is a remarkably skilled meditation teacher. In this precious gem of a book, she shows us how to open our hearts into deepest solidarity with others and thereby uncover our truest selves." (John Makransky, author of Awakening Through Love)<br /><br />"A brilliant book and a must-read for all seekers." (Tulku Thondup Rinpoche, author of Boundless Healing)
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  COMPASSION 
  The Spirit of Truth 
  
  Integrative Theosophical Studies Online Series 3 
  The Heart Doctrine 
  COMPASSION 
  The Spirit of Truth 
  A study of the Immutable Law of Universal Sympathy and Sacrifice, and Its mutable facets, 
  Worldly Love or Selfishness and Devotional Love or Bhakti, integrating the ethical precepts of 
  the Bhagavad-Gita, Light on the Path, Narada Bhakti Sutra, Voice of the Silence, and other 
  manuals of initiation, with their metaphysical roots in the Secret Doctrine of the Heart. 
  Compiled and edited by 
  Dr C A Bartzokas, MD 
  Second electronic edition 
  Revised, enlarged, and updated 
  Version 05.85-2019 
   
  www.philaletheians.co.uk 
  2009 
  
   
   
   
  First published in Great Britain 2005 
  Philaletheians UK, Ty Ucha, Hafod Road, Gwernymynydd, Near Mold, CH7 5JS 
  Second electronic edition 2009, v. 05.85 
  ©Philaletheians 2005, 2009, 2019. All rights reserved. 
  ISBN-10:  0 9550400 2 7 
  ISBN-13:  978 0 9550400 2 3 
  British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data. 
  A 