I am reading the Brothers Karamazov for the first time. I’m 70 pages in. Father Zossima just told an anecdote (parable?) about a doctor who, as he aged, loved humanity more and more but could tolerate being in the presence of any individual less and less; too annoying! I have been thinking of it all week. Very satisfying to feel like someone else has been seeing it, too. You articulate it beautifully. Never thought about loving thy neighbor singular before. Thank you.
I am reading the Brothers Karamazov for the first time. I’m 70 pages in. Father Zossima just told an anecdote (parable?) about a doctor who, as he aged, loved humanity more and more but could tolerate being in the presence of any individual less and less; too annoying! I have been thinking of it all week. Very satisfying to feel like someone else has been seeing it, too. You articulate it beautifully. Never thought about loving thy neighbor singular before. Thank you.
Thank you Bethany. I've never read BK but that sounds spot-on with the same idea. Love that we happened to have some parallel thinking on that.