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Frederick Buechner

Compassion

by Frederick Buechner

Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it’s like to live inside somebody else’s skin.  

It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.   

-Originally published in Wishful Thinking and later in Beyond Words

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