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Power Of Boundless Compassion Essay

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Is there a way that compassion can help with humanity? Compassion can help with humanity because we are a society that can help other people. Even though, there are people that don’t show compassion, there are people that do show compassion. In the book Tattoos on the Heart, The Power of Boundless Compassion, compassion is assumed to be the answer to every question. Compassion is a non-ending tool that everyone can use in the world. Are there reasons for us to be compassionate to others even if we are not religious? I believe that there are many reasons to why we can be compassionate, even if we are not religious. First of all, you don’t have to be religious in order to be compassionate to someone or to do a good deed. You can definitely show compassion to someone just because you want to. People show compassion to others to show that they care, to make the person change their perspective and change the person’s attitude. Just like Father Gregory Boyle does in Tattoos on the Heart, The Power of Boundless Compassion, with the home boys and the home girls. There are practical reasons to act compassionately towards those who disappoint us. I know it may not seem like it, but there is. For example, Father Boyle was compassionate to a fellow home boy name Danny. Boyle hated …show more content…

In the chapter “Compassion,” Boyle tells the story of Anthony. Anthony is a nineteen year old, that has been on his own for a while. Anthony’s parents had disappear because of heroin and prison time. Anthony had been selling PCP in order to be able to survive. He would buy himself either Big Macs or Pastrami Madness at Jim’s. Boyle met Anthony through Mary Ridgway, a probation officer. Boyle and Anthony were having a conversation and it had gone in the direction of “what do you want to be when you grow up.” “I want to be a mechanic. Don’t know nothing ‘bout cars, really. But I’d like to learn it.” Anthony had told Boyle.

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