“My personal belief is that God looks through Her Rolodex when She has a certain kind of desperate person in Her care, and assigns that person to some screwed up soul like you or me, and makes it hard for us to ignore that person’s suffering, so we show up even when it is extremely [...]
Generosity in quotes
January 25, 2013 By Leave a Comment
“It seems to me that compassion asks what a person feels or needs…. and condescension assumes. (Stuff like: You are a mess and I can fix you. Awww you poor thing- I am so past that kind of experience that I’m sure I can help you do this better…” ) The times I’ve felt someone [...]
Generosity in quotes
July 27, 2012 By 2 Comments
“In the end, effective outcomes and a piling of success stories aren’t the things for which we reach. Though, who am I kidding. I prefer them to abject failure and decades of death. But it’s not about preference. It’s about the disruption of categories that leads us to abandon the difficult, the disagreeable, and the [...]
