Becky Graves Becky Graves

The privilege of compassion

Suffering hadn’t shrunk their hearts, you see. It had expanded their capacity for compassion. The more stories of suffering I hear, the more I understand that our humanity places each of us on a spectrum of suffering...

Our experiences of suffering are best leveraged when they make us more aware of other people’s pain.

Suffering grants us the hard-won privilege of compassion.

Katherine Wolf, Treasures in the Dark

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