Dear friends, ‘The circle of ecological compassion we feel is enlarged by direct experience of the living world, and shrunken by its lack.’ These words from Robin Wall Kimmerer’s book Braiding Sweetgrass have been on my mind. I feel that compassion, like anything, is a living practice. One can act with compassion in one moment or circumstance, but that never makes you a ‘compassionate person’ full stop. In my experience, life doesn’t really do full stops. You declare something to be just so, only to find that the next day it has become something quite different.
The light touch of compassion
The light touch of compassion
The light touch of compassion
Dear friends, ‘The circle of ecological compassion we feel is enlarged by direct experience of the living world, and shrunken by its lack.’ These words from Robin Wall Kimmerer’s book Braiding Sweetgrass have been on my mind. I feel that compassion, like anything, is a living practice. One can act with compassion in one moment or circumstance, but that never makes you a ‘compassionate person’ full stop. In my experience, life doesn’t really do full stops. You declare something to be just so, only to find that the next day it has become something quite different.