Sentence examples for compassionate grasp from inspiring English sources
Whether writing about Stalin's purge of Yiddish writers or a Hasidic Jew whose sexual torment is so acute that his rabbi gives him a special dispensation to visit a prostitute, "Englander combines a compassionate grasp of the Orthodox Jewish world with the skeptical irreverence of one estranged from yet still oddly defined by it," James E. Young said here last year.
Absent a self-compassionate grasp of reality, past and present, an individual can't get better.
These capacities include not only reason as the ability to grasp conceptual connections and employ arbitrary signs (Gesammelte Schriften 6/2, pp. 9f), but also — in tandem with the development of rational capacities — the capacity for compassionate interaction in familial and social settings.
Only when we grasp its role as a signal function, rather than a thought we identify with, can we allow the feeling to shift naturally to a broader, more compassionate stance.
