Compassion does not get fatigued

In the zendo last night, someone asked me about “compassion fatigue.” I answered that such a feeling is not really about compassion, it’s about your self-centered dislike of the suffering that others are experiencing, and thus is a rejection of the other person and of life as it is in that moment.

This morning, reading Rebecca Solnit’s book The Faraway Nearby, I found this:

You haven’t only witnessed something but also translated it into your own experience; you ha...