A shelter from compassion

by Ruth E. Durr

Other authorsFritz Eichenberg (Illustrator)
Pamphlet, 1956

Status

Available

Call number

CP 87/1

Tags

homelessness, mental illness, compassion

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Your library, CP - PENDLE HILL PAMPHLETS

Publication

Wallingford : Pendle Hill, [1956]

Subjects

Sympathy

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This is a lovely pamphlet, on how we avoid sympathy, to avoid seeing hurt and need and the consequences for us. Every sentence gently illuminates the subject further.
We build a shelter from compassion and maintain it scrupulously. These walls that shut people out also shut us in. It is also a
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 barricade to keep God out.
The God within us IS compassion. The one valid communion with God is through the sacrament of devotion to love.
The Eichenberg woodcut is lovely
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CP 87/1

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372

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