Compassion

Have I told you about Frederick Buechner? The dude can write. He has a profound insight into the spiritual life. If I haven't told you about my friend Fred, whom I've never met, then I apologize.

In Wishful Thinking, A Seeker's ABC Frederick defines compassion like this:

Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it's like to live inside somebody else's skin.

It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

Today's thought from my friend Frederick.