Thursday 22 February 2007

Story 2 : What is compassion ?

In harper lee " To Kill a mocking bird" , Atticus Finch offers his daughter some invaluable advice. "If you can learn a simple trick," he says ," you get'll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view....until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."

Trying to put yourself into another's place , to share for a moment his or her feelings , is often the starting point of compassion. But there's more to true compassion than just emotion. To help someone, you usually have to do something, not just feel something. Compassion takes the name of action. Its means exerting yourself and bestrowing some effort for someone else's sake.

" A bone to the dog is not charity." " Charity is the bone shared with the dog , when you are as hungry as the dog." Sincerely helping someone brings the real satisfaction.

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