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What Relates Swan Lake and Musical Fountains to Compassion?

What Relates Swan Lake and Musical Fountains to Compassion?

Compassion is a deep awareness of, and a sympathy with, someone else’s suffering. That is the traditional definition, but really compassion is much broader than that. Compassion is an innate sense of empathy with things and people outside of ourselves — not just their suffering but their feelings, their thinking, and their situation. To be […]

Posted on January 4, 2008May 6, 2014 by Samir Bharadwaj in Creative Ideas

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