Artist: Albert AnkerAs I've shared with you before, I think, Buechner is one of my favorite writers:
Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.
I have tears as I read this quote and ponder the artwork.
ReplyDeleteHere is another great quote on compassion I just found at http://www.spiritualityandpractice.com/practices/features.php?id=19472
John A Wilde
Whitesboro NY
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Oops.I forgot to paste the quote! Here it is:
ReplyDeleteCompassion literally means to feel with, to suffer with. Everyone is capable of compassion, and yet everyone tends to avoid it because it's uncomfortable. And the avoidance produces psychic numbing — resistance to experiencing our pain for the world and other beings.
— Joanna Macy quoted in Open Mind by Diane Mariechild
Hello, John. Thank you so much for stopping by. Both the quotes you offer are really good. I especially like Macy's observation that the avoidance of compassion produces psychic numbing. So very true.
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