Compassion Not Pity

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Contemplation and Compassion: The Second Gaze

Explores the importance of contemplative practice for fostering compassion, emphasizing the transition from self-centered reactions to a compassionate second gaze that aligns with divine intimacy and authentic action.

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Compassion, in contrast, means that I identify with the afflicted individual so fully that I feed him for the same reason I feed myself: because we are both hungry. In other words, I have paid him attention.

Robert Zaretsky • Simone Weil’s Radical Conception of Attention

Radical Compassion: Finding Christ in the Heart of the Poor

Gary Smith • 7 highlights

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Contemplation and compassion are finally coming together. This is my second gaze.

It is well worth waiting for because only the second gaze sees fully and truthfully. It sees itself, the other, and even God with God’s own eyes, which are always eyes of compassion. It is from this place that true action must spring. Otherwise, most of our action