She saw that Jarvis still looked uncertain. “Let’s say you get to the top of the mountain. You still have your alcoholic brother and schizophrenic mother down at the bottom of the mountain. What about them? There are still people begging on the street for food. What about them? Do you just leave them behind? Is that enlightenment? No,” she continued, “the path is going down and down and down into their suffering and the suffering of all the people. You embrace them. You join them. Compassion isn’t about looking down on someone who’s in worse shape than you and helping the poor person. It’s
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