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.
Out of suffering compassion is born There’s just no damn doubt about it comrades, in this life there will be a whole series of devastating losses. To use the cliché “shit happens,” and for many people it hits the fan big time, regularly. Speaking to a very dear friend a while ago who lost her […]
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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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