Compassion gives us the courage to turn toward difficulty and suffering and make a real difference. Here's how.
Compassion is the recognition of suffering in self and others with a desire to alleviate and prevent it.Compassion isn't something we’re born with or not. It’s a skill that can be strengthened through practice.
I ditched my cable subscription last spring. If I had to hear one more screaming head or screaming politician or screaming anything who pits one person or one side against another purposefully for ratings or dramatic effect, I was going to lose it. It was either the black metal box beneath the television or my sanity—I chose the latter.
I also didn’t like what was happening to me. In watching 24-hour “breaking news” or, for that matter, doomscrolling social media about the COVID pandemic, political polarization, misinformation, disinformation, race and culture wars, economic insecurity, and the general daily dread that has been dominating our lives for years, I was sliding into indifference—about others, life, and the hope of society ever regaining some modicum of goodwill, decency, and kindness.
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