"If you're going to care about the fall of the sparrow you can't pick and choose who's going to be the sparrow. It's everybody."

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A friend told me of visiting the Dalai Lama in India and asking him for a succinct definition of compassion. She prefaced her question by describing how heart-stricken she'd felt when, earlier that day, she'd seen a man in the street beating a mangy stray dog with a stick. "Compassion," the Dalai Lama told her, "is when you feel as sorry for the man as you do for the dog."

— Marc Ian Barasch