Compassion is Not a Feeling

(This is an excerpt from Chapter One of the forthcoming bookPractice Makes PURPOSE: Six Spiritual Practices that Will Change Your Life and Transform Your Community)The great enemy of curiosity and wonder is self-absorption. When you or I are preoccupied by our own worries and projects, we stop being curious about what is happening around us and within us. Self-absorption is the opposite of compassion. With this in mind, we should always take care that our spiritual practice does not have the...