To Taste Compassion

Sometime in the first half of the 2020s

“If you’re really going to taste compassion and know what it’s about, there needs to already be a sense of what is beyond oneself, hence—the transpersonal, and not just self and other. It’s one thing to serve others, but if the energy of otherness is held very strongly, that’s still quite a strong wall. The transpersonal being is what we experience when the walls come down, or at least thin, and we realize the oneness, to whatever extent. Maybe we call it interconnected. Maybe we call it interbeing. But in whatever way we experience it, that oneness, that foundational love, is what makes compassion so powerful.”