When compassion wakes up in us, we find ourselves more willing to become vulnerable, to take the risk of entering the pain of others.
“When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though he were destined to remain long on board ship!”
“We are living at a time when creeds and ideologies vary and clash. But the gospel of human sympathy is universal and eternal.”