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Why compassion fails in the moment of encounter

I walk faster when I pass homeless people and I hate that I do this but I cannot seem to stop myself.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The gap between moral intention and embodied response reveals the difference between wanting to be good and actually being present to difficulty.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Walking — a philosophy of?”

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