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@@ -43706,4 +43706,18 @@ Please meditate in the forest from now on.
   -- Longchenpa, from "The Life of Longchenpa: The Omniscient Dharma King of
      the Vast Expanse", Compiled and edited by Jampa Mackenzie Stewart, published
      by Shambhala Publications
+~
+Compassion has no hierarchy of worthy and unworthy suffering; it makes no
+distinctions between the deserving and the undeserving.  Wherever there is
+suffering, there is a need for compassion.  Finding compassion for those who
+cause pain is an ongoing practice requiring remarkable patience and
+perseverance.  It is a difficult journey, but the path of bitterness and
+division is far more painful.  The path of compassion begins with your
+willingness to soften and stay present in all the moments when you are prone
+to recoil and flinch.  You learn to open your eyes and heart in all the places
+you have been blinded by fear or rage.  You begin to dismantle the boundaries
+that have too long divided you from others.
+  -- "All the Rage--Buddhist Wisdom on Anger and Acceptance", Edited by Andrea
+     Miller and the Editors of the Shambhala Sun, published by Shambhala
+     Publications