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Suffering Is What Opens Compassion

"The only thing that gets someone out of that kind of isolated thinking is great love or great suffering," he says. "It's been throughout history, all the traditions." The word idiot comes from the greek idios, and it means a person who has collapsed upon themselves. It takes quiet courage to be whole hearted and not to hide from our compassion, she writes.

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