But first, before I dig my shovel into the moist soil of this delightful, depressing and bedeviling topic “the two types of compassion,” let me define terms.
Here are two somewhat different descriptions of ‘Compassion rightly felt and deployed’ contrasted with its neurotic, idiotic cuz:
by Thomas Armstrong
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