Through his untold generosity of spirit, he was a beacon of light, source of compassion, tower of strength and inspiration to countless people, and Jewish communities around the world.
In Port-au-Prince again, under siege, Jean, who had portrayed himself as a generous émigré bringing the light of his compassion and worldly knowledge to Haiti, was implying that the race had gone very dark.
Thus, the entire cosmos is a panoply of countless buddha-fields in which the drama of the salvation of all beings is carried out, with buddhas and bodhisattvas radiating the light of wisdom-compassion for all living things.
While it would be wonderful to produce videos that lit a fire of compassion over fixing the many hardships that children face, the reality is that the complexity of these problems cannot be reduced so simply.
"In a winter-hammered landscape," he writes, "the light creates a feeling of compassion... it is possible to imagine a stifling ignorance falling away from us".
Even as one begins to perceive Laing in a new light – Fowler isolates moments of compassion, sadness, uncertainty, even fear in his self-aggrandising subject – All Divided Selves also shows the consequences of his doctrines.
In her 2000 memoir My Life as a 10-Year-Old Boy, Cartwright wrote: "with the brilliant wit of the writers and the wry, in-your-eye, honest-to-a-fault interpretation, Yeardley Smith has made Lisa a bright light of leadership, full of compassion and competence beyond her years.
