Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self. (Arnold J. Toynbee)

Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.

Arnold J. Toynbee

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