How Empathy Will Change the World

Progressives want equity, but there’s no equity without empathy

Image by 🇨🇭 Claudio Schwarz | @purzlbaum on Unsplash

Once, I met an American Buddhist Lama who told me in some detail about his past lives. Ages ago, he was a marauding warlord somewhere on the steppes of Asia. “I was not a nice man,” he admitted. My personal favorite was when he told me, “I was a blueberry bush. I didn’t like it. People were always…