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Naomi Shihab Nye

Kindness

Kindness

A poignant poem by Naomi Shihab Nye exploring the relationship between sorrow and empathy.

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    ““Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing. You must wake up with sorrow. You must speak to it till your voice catches the thread of all sorrows and you see the size of the cloth. Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore””

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