Compassion is a wound in the heart whence flows a common love to all mankind and which cannot be healed so long as any suffering lives in man. (John Ruysbroeck)

Compassion is a wound in the heart whence flows a common love to all mankind and which cannot be healed so long as any suffering lives in man.

John Ruysbroeck

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