Moral Book: Sympathy Volume - If a Heart Can Be Spared from Breaking

Author: Yan Chang
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Publish Date: 2006-05-01
Features: Eight Honors and Eight Disgraces, Starting with Children; Quality Education, Starting with Virtue. This book, with its exquisite and classic content, is an extracurricular reading material for primary and secondary school students. Its profound emotions make it a moral guide for parent-child reading. If I can prevent a heart from breaking, then my life has not been in vain; if I can bring comfort to a suffering life, alleviate its pain and worries, or help a small robin return to its nest, then my life has not been in vain. What is compassion? Compassion is caring about others' feelings, paying attention to their needs, comforting those who have been hurt, and helping those in distress, treating friends and family with kindness. In life, happiness is not the goal, virtue is the standard. Life is short, only virtue can make it last for generations. Compassion is human nature, a virtue that is both ordinary and noble, representing the most primal and beautiful qualities of humanity. This book collects a series of articles themed around "Compassion," explaining what true virtue truly is from different perspectives. The selected works in the book are diverse in genre, including essays, poems, fairy tales, fables, etc., with some works by renowned masters, profound in meaning. These literary works from different countries and eras can lead readers beyond cultural boundaries and racial differences, sharing the common spiritual wealth of humanity.