I once read that a great way to grow your sense of compassion for another person is to imagine that we have all led countless lives, in one of which this other person might have protected you as your mother when you were a helpless infant, and you may have done the same for this person.
As a citizen of the United States, I worry about compassion wearing out for our country as a whole. When the news is reporting crises going on all over the world, and it seems like we are expected to do something in every case, how do we decide when and how to act? Sometimes it feels like a wall of sound, so big it cancels itself out.
What drives you to care about other people, and what keeps that caring alive when you're tired or stressed out? How is it working for you?
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