“Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.”
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Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.
Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.
At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.
Whether for life or death, do your own work well.
