On Compassion
This quote is mostly just for me, but maybe it might be meaningful to you as well.
Here we see what compassion means. It is not a bending toward the under privileged from a privileged position; it is not a reaching out from on high to those who are less fortunate below; it is not a gesture of sympathy or pity for those who fail to make it in the upward pull. On the contrary, compassion means going directly to those people and places where suffering is most acute and building a home there.
--Henri Nouwen from Compassion: A Reflection on the Christian Life
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