The Latin root for the word compassion is pati, which means to suffer, and the prefix com- means with. Compassion, originating from compati, literally means to suffer with. The connection of suffering with another person brings compassion beyond empathy, into the realm of the universal ethic of self-sacrificing love.
The wound is the place where the Light enters you. — Rumi. Like it or not, we nearly all get to take a reluctant stroll down the boulevard of broken dreams. If you, like me, have stumbled into this unwelcome place, comrades, take heart, it might just be the best thing that has ever happened to […]
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“The best thing of all is God is with us.” – John Wesley. Eventually, on my journey, ravaged and broken as it has been, I found myself all out of self-sufficiency cards. Literally broke, life in tatters, and spiritually smashed to smithereens. I had a hole in the soul you could drive a truck through.
We must learn to live together as sisters & brothers or we will all perish together as fools” – Martin Luther King, Jr. I recall attending a speech given by a prominent human rights and refugee advocate in Australia a few years ago. On this occasion he was speaking about workers’ rights to a somewhat
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“There is a crack in everything; that’s how the light gets in.” Leonard Cohen. Eventually, we nearly all take a reluctant stroll down the boulevard of broken dreams. If you’ve stumbled into this unwelcome place, comrades, take heart, it might just be the best thing that has ever happened to you. For above all, this is
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