We become compassionate beings and through our pain develop empathy and understanding for all humanity. And that is what we need in this world.

Yes! That is so true. I struggle sometimes with feeling too deeply, taking the pain of others as my own, and all I manage to do, when they’re complete strangers, is to achieve burn-out.

It’s too awful to feel so deeply. Often we run from it or hide from it, and then we’re really ineffective. But if we can face it head on — that empathy is what we need — we can go on being snowflakes AND warriors at the same time.