by Garrison Institute | Mar 31, 2017 | Arts, Insights
I recently attended a reading by George Saunders for his new novel Lincoln at the Bardo. After admitting that, politically, he was “left of Ghandi,” Saunders addressed a struggle he and other liberals were currently facing: whether to be empathetic or to be fierce....
by Garrison Institute | Jan 18, 2017 | Insights, Meditation, Science
You are likely familiar with the idea that you can feel too much of the suffering of others. This is sometimes called “burnout,” a word that was coined in the 1970s. But it’s not a new insight; the idea has many origins, including, to my surprise, in Buddhist...
