- Sylvia Boorstein, "Dear Abbey Dharma"
Real life does not have commercial breaks. Everyone lowers their voices when they step into an intensive-care ward or look into the waiting room on a surgery floor of a hospital or drive by an accident on the highway.
The sense that something of momentous import is happening in the lives of real people right now wakes the mind from daydreaming or self-preoccupation, and elicits compassion. Knowing the people involved is not necessary. Knowing it is real makes the difference.
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