Samaritan ~ About Us

#29 We want to be useful

Most people want to contribute. Even in nomad hubs where people could easily stop working forever, I find most people do things to help others, create, etc.. Realizing this can help you realize how important it is to search for the "real work"

Wherever you are, wherever you land, whatever stage of shared inhumanity you find in that place, there will be a better world to be built. You are not called to save your neighbors, but in the course of living and working and dreaming, your life will intersect with many others. Many of those others will be tired, with good reason. Many will be scar... See more

The basic insight is that compassion—which combines an awareness of suffering with a desire to alleviate it—can be applied to ourselves, just as it can be applied to people in the outside world. And compassion can be learned.