Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
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Pema Chödron
from the book The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times
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Further quotes from the book The Places That Scare You:
- Our true nature and condition
- Nothing and no one is fixed
- Whatever we encounter
- Being inspired by everyday good fortune
- The queasy feeling of being in the middle of nowhere
- The anxiety of opening
- Everyday uncertainty
- Cultivating equanimity
- Happiness
- Life preferences
- The root of happiness
- Awakening our unlimited potential
- Dissolving our self-importance
- Dissolving our fear
- At least until you die
- The first mark of existence
- Being in the middle of nowhere
- A flexible identity
- Idiot Compassion