"Compassion isn’t a fable. It isn’t an unattainable ideal. It is simply a turn away from the isolation of ego and toward the world we create, inhabit, and share. From this perspective, every single cry fills my entire universe. Every single problem is my problem. Every wound is mine to heal. Sure, suffering can divide us into the perpetrator and the victim, the powerful and the powerless, but it can awaken and unite us, too. In fact, it must.
I’ve read the #MeToos. I know the fear and pain. I listen to the cries, which echo my own. But what I see in this goes beyond me alone. What I see is you, you, and you: an infinite whole that conveys the magnitude of the suffering, the empathy required of us, and the urgent need for each of us to wake up and begin to do good.
When I can forget myself, even for a moment, the barrier between us dissolves. Then my own eyes and arms reach out to touch #YouToo."
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