In his third love mantra, "Dear one, I know you suffer, and I am here for you," Thích Nhất Hạnh invites us to connect with our innate impulse to lessen the world's suffering. Though an innate impulse, the desire to join with and alleviate another's pain and hurt is not always easy to do. The capacity for compassion can be especially hindered when we experience others as threatening us, actually harming us, or in some other way as the source of our own suffering. In this way, the challenge with real compassion often stems from the way that we must feel our own pain in order to join with another's pain. What's one way that you make sure to do self-care when connecting with the universal experience of suffering and pain? [image description: Two hearts sit on the grass. The heart on the left has a concerned facial expression and witnesses the heart on the right who has a frown and is holding its knees into its chest. Above the heart on the right text reads, "I know you suffer."]
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