I listened to Krista Tippet's show On Being this morning. Today's show was an interview with former Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey and Eboo Patel, writer and founder of Interfaith Youth Core. It was a conversation around compassion, being active in the community, diversity, empathy for others, and the like. It certainly has me musing. The link to the show is here.
In working on the book, Opening the Heart: Meditations on How to Be, one of the meditation sayings that came through for the book was "Compassion for Others." This is the image from the book:
I think that listening and compassion, having empathy are a path for the future to move us a way from fear and anger. It makes me think of the Truth and Reconciliation commission of South Africa (although I'm sure it didn't make that culture perfect), and the various types of wisdom and other circles where we make connections on deep levels. By changing how we listen and how we see on an individual level can change everything.
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