A real bodhisattva of compassion
Gale and I went to the Philadelphia Museum of Art this afternoon. We were able to see the exhibit The…
Tag: #compassion
No-self care.
My last post failed to deliver the punchline. I didn’t connect my closing thoughts about patience, forbearance, and forgiveness with…
K.I.S.S. Keep it simple, stupid.
At the end of my last blog post, I said that I would focus next on how the dramatic moment…
Forgiving is not about or for the other person, until it is.
Reversing time is not the only paradox about forgiving. When we forgive someone, we are not doing it for the…
Calvary
Brendan Gleeson has played many thugs in his career, but at least in his movies with John Michael McDonagh he…
Stranger or guest?
Cardinal Jean Danielou, S.J., died of a heart attack in the home of a prostitute in 1974. Unfortunately he is…
Imagining compassion: Guanyin
An earlier post told the story of a boy named Cyril, who was abandoned by his father and taken in…