Arthur Zajonc, the second president of the Mind and Life Institute, and a quantum physicist and philosopher to boot, once said that if we let go of grasping, “we become more open to our own experience, and to other people. That openness—a form of love—lets us more easily approach other people’s suffering.” “Great souls,” he added, “seem to embody the ability to engage suffering and handle it without collapse. Letting go of grasping is liberating, creating a moral axis for action and compassion.”
