"What I want in my life
is compassion, a flow between myself and
others based on a
mutual giving from the heart."
Marshall B.
Rosenberg
"When we experience
the pain of another person,
we instinctively want
to take away that pain.
But by taking away the
other person's pain,
we also take away his
or her opportunity to grow.
To be truly
compassionate, we must be able to share another
person's suffering and
pain -- knowing there is nothing we can do
to relieve it and that
we are not responsible for it,
and yet knowing and
understanding what that pain feels like."
John
Gray
