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"to love the enemy and to find some spaciousness for the victimizers as well as the victim, resembles more the expansive compassion of God. That's why you do it. To be in the world who God is.
Here is what we seek: a compassion that can stand in awe at what the poor have to carry, rather than stand in judgment of how they carry it... (p.67).
...compassion isn't just about feeling the pain of others, its about letting them in, bring them in towards yourself. If we love what God loves, then, in compassion, margins get erased...
...compassion is not a relationship between the Healer and the Wounded. It is a covenant between equals. Compassion is always at its most authentic, about a shift from the cramped world of the self-preoccupation into a more expansive place of fellowship, of true kinship" (p.77)
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