Empathetic Compassion

Try not to correct the person.
Clarify the point,
allowing recognition to take place
in its own good time.

There is absolutely no point in arguing.
People have to see for themselves.

At the art academy, teachers came round twice a day to give us a ‘crit’. They looked at the drawing or painting and said, “This is too long” or “This is too short” or “That is warmer” or “That is cooler”. They never said, “You are wrong.” This is something we can appreciate. Teachers went through this same clarification from their teachers: a lineage clears the luggage! Empathetic compassion would certainly make this a better world: it would make us all responsible.

We all have to learn to be teachers.