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Posts Tagged as ‘compassion’
May 22, 2009
Who is deserving?
Compassion flows through us to those in need, but only if we allow it.
It cannot be saved for another day, or for a person we deem worthy.
Given freely, it can never be depleted. Conserving it, our capacity to
engage it is diminished. Compassion reserved is compassion denied.
May 22, 2009
Compassion vs. Pity
Empathy is a feeling of concern provoked by observing the suffering of another. Compassion conflates this emotion with action (or beneficial inaction) appropriate to mitigating the perceived distress.
Pity may result from empathy and may resemble compassion, but it is absent of the requirement to acknowledge the sufferer as an equal. Because of this, the works [...]
