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Compassion and cosmic oneness
Does the state of compassion imply a cosmic oneness that blurs the notions of self and other, time and space, and life and death?
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Compassion,
Cosmos,
flicker,
Life,
Self,
Space,
Time,
Wonderment
Compassion vs Indiffernce
In the act of a fox chasing a Nubian Ibex, what does compassion mean for an onlooker? Is it simply indifference?
Interpretive lens
Is it possible to see the self, let alone the others, with no agenda or artifactual lens whatsoever?
Compassion and meanings
Compassion seems to require an ability to not just understand the "meanings" others attach to their actions, but to appreciate the idiosyncratic circumstances that may have necessitated those specific meanings and not others.
Compassion
It is at the moment I stamp the creature as a "pest" that I realize how afar off compassion I am.
Compassion and less-privileged
The less-privileged must have a foresight into our impending misery, for they seem invariably endowed with compassion.
Compassion
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Compassion consists of attention to or noticing of suffering; empathetic concern, a felt relation with the other; and action to lessen or relieve suffering.
Kanov, J. M., Maitlis, S., Worline, M. C., Dutton, J. E., Frost, P. J., & Lilius, J. M. (2004). Compassion in organizational life. American Behavioral Scientist, 47(6), 808–827.
Misery and Company: Sympathy in Everyday Life, Clark. (n.d.). Retrieved November 15, 2012, from http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo3631372.html
Misery and Company: Sympathy in Everyday Life, Clark. (n.d.). Retrieved November 15, 2012, from http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo3631372.html