Compassion is knowing our darkness well enough that we can sit in the dark with others.
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Compassion is knowing our darkness well enough that we can sit in the dark with others.
Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. It is all we ever have so we might as well work with it rather than struggling against it. We might as well make it our friend and teacher rather than our enemy.
Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.