We each bring to our various relationships a tendency to see what we know, or maybe what we want. And that doesn’t serve anyone particularly well.
And so, Karen Armstrong counsels us to come to terms with how little we know if we have any shot at living a compassionate life.
There’s a lot I don’t know. And in order to truly develop compassion, I need to make peace with that, and to start finding out what others know that I don’t.
Make a list of a few of the things you don’t know. Be OK with it.