Today’s Life-Lines are a follow-up to my post on June 10, 2022, on COMPASSION.

I link compassion immediately with intimacy. Compassion is the ability to vitally imagine what it is like to be an other, the force that makes a bridge from the island of one individuality to the island of the other. It is an ability to step outside your own perspective, limitations and ego, and become attentive in a vulnerable, encouraging, critical, and creative way with the hidden world of another person. ~ John O’Donohue

Stay where you are. Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering, and the lonely right there where you are — in your own homes and in your own families, in your workplaces and in your schools. You can find Calcutta all over the world if you have the eyes to see. Everywhere, wherever you go, you find people who are unwanted, unloved, uncared for, just rejected by society — completely forgotten, completely left alone. ~ Mother Teresa

ARTWORK: (Top) Erekle Chinchilakashvili, Meeting and Separation in Red, (Bottom) Seiichi Terazono, The Conductor II. 

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