The closest we can come to experiencing the suffering of others is to physically enact their suffering. It isn’t the same, of course. But to limit what one puts into one’s body, to choose the worst, the poorest, of foods, feels like aligning one’s self with the poor. It is a move toward the light and away from the self. When I am listening to someone else’s words, I am, for this one pure moment, free of my self. To practice this act, the act of listening to others, to the suffering of others, is to revisit the prelapsarian, before we were made self-conscious. It is to be made whole, again. Cynthia Cruz
Posted on: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 21:28:34 +0000
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