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Tell Me Something Good

By Pseudoanonymous

A little Easter gift for you: Rev. Dr. Rita Nakashima Brock: ?Lamentation? Friday and the Power of Love:

Heloise understood compassion as something more than full identification with another’s pain and sorrow and the internalizing of the most abject, abyssal suffering. For her, compassion was more than subjective feeling, weakness, and devotion. Her compassion maintained a tensile consciousness that combined empathy for another’s pain with sufficient self-possession to be able to offer to someone mired in his own suffering a world beyond pain and helplessness, a world glimpsed in community and companionship?a world that offered, still, the possibilities of love, of friendship.

Full post as published by Arkansawyer on April 04, 2010 (boomark / email).