The Wonders of Compassion
Of all the wonders in the
world, the one
that awes me the most is compassion;
a simple gesture of kindness—picking
up a lonely hitchhiker stuck for
days
in Wawa in Northwestern Ontario;
one
small heroic act of grace—patting
a
fellow competitor on the
shoulder as
he passes him on his way to
the finish
line in the Hawaiian triathlon,
honoring
the man’s best effort; offering
a pregnant
woman a seat on the Go train at
Union
Station in Toronto; and little
mercies of
understanding, like knowing that
you
are right but not making a big
fuss over
it because it means more to
her (or him)
than it does to you; absolutely
nothing
in this world has ever been more
awe-
inspiring to me than the wonders
of compassion.
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