If you are going to be greedy, be greedy for understanding.
Understanding leads to compassion, but this is only a start. Compassion, as I can’t emphasize enough, is merely a posture for fools, but only a beginning for the wise. It must lead somewhere. It must lead to efforts at either alleviating actual, concrete human suffering, and/or to a thirst to build in others a desire to heal themselves, and a belief that this is possible. You must show them a way. This is what I continue to strive to do.
But I have not healed myself yet. I continue to pay in blood, tears, and terror, and I will continue to do so as long as it takes. I do not want the easy road. I want the correct road.