“Compassion will give meaning and understanding to Rogozhin himself. Compassion is the chief and perhaps only law of being for all mankind.”
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
Please call me by my true name,
so that I can awaken,
so that the door of my heart may be left open,
the door of compassion.
—Thich Nhat Hanh, from “Call Me By My True Names”
