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“Hold a flashlight on the street and it brightens your way, but hold it smack right into your eyes and you see nothing - the same is with intellect - too much intellect takes away your humanity.”

Book:Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society

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“We have lost the feeling of compassion for all the things that are happening on earth. There has been so much crap going on, so much pain, that somehow, we learned to ignore it. Most of us stopped noticing, deeply feeling, reacting and by the end of the day we got used to everything, even to worse outcomes.”

Life Lost Compassion Feeling

Book:Petrichor

Source: Petrichor

“Do you think that to express ideas one doesn't need a heart? One does need it - they are rendered fruitful by love; stretch out a helping hand to the fallen man to raise him, or shed bitter tears over him, if he faces ruin, but do not jeer at him. Love him, remember that he is a man like you, and deal with him as if he were yourself.”

Love Humanity Understanding Compassion Perspective Empathy Charity

Book:Oblomov

Source: Oblomov

“Spiritual fatherhood has nothing to do with power or control. It is a fatherhood of compassion. But the father of the prodigal son is not concerned about himself. His long-suffering life has emptied him of his desires to keep in control of things. Can I give without wanting anything in return, love without putting any conditions on my love?”

Suffering Spirituality Compassion Theology Selfishness Unconditional Love Fatherhood Parables Prodigal Son

Book:The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming

Source: The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming

“I go to the grave shared by my father and Jimmy. The question I get most, the one I hate, is why I went into his room. And why I helped people. Again and again, "Why did you do it? How?" The answer is, How could I not? The real question is, How could *you* not?”

Love Compassion

Book:All the Young Men: A Memoir of Love, AIDS, and Chosen Family in the American South

Source: All the Young Men: A Memoir of Love, AIDS, and Chosen Family in the American South

“Tragedy is so personal, but it doesn’t mean it hasn’t happened before, to someone, somewhere—it’s what helps us to understand and bring solace to others, knowing something of what they feel.”

Compassion Empathy Tragedy

Book:To Die But Once

Source: To Die But Once

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