When compassion wakes up in us, we find ourselves more willing to become vulnerable, to take the risk of entering the pain of others.
“My CD collection has a lot of world music - lots of Indian, African, Portuguese, Greek, Italian music. Because of my husband, a lot of jazz, too.”
“They were often the first students in their family to go to college and the very idea of higher education was still foreign to them. They had to make a conscious and often difficult decision to come to college.”