"How can we foster this compassion in our lives, feel more for people who are suffering? Do you think we need the daily news to be more aware?
"We do need to have some access to information about our world, some good magazines and papers. Of course, if you watch TV and read papers constantly, you lose perspective, things get muddied. Anyone who is in the business will tell you that. Political commentators know that if you get immersed in too much news analysis you no longer see anything clearly."
Thomas Merton, The Springs of Contemplation (Ave Maria Press, 1997), 27.
(H/T RCG)
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