Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel
responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is
bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the
Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the
world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst
horrors.
Andrew Boyd
Daily Afflictions: The Agony of Being Connected to Everything in the Universe
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