Pema Chödrön: Compassion is knowing our darkness well enough that we can sit in the dark with others

Compassion is knowing our darkness well enough that we can sit in the dark with others. It never is a relationship between the wounded and the healed. It is a relationship between equals.

– Pema Chödrön, The Places that Scare You

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