And it is an arresting fact that right across the board, in every single one of the major world faiths, compassion — the ability to feel with the other in the way we've been thinking about this evening — is not only the test of any true religiosity, it is also what will bring us into the presence of what Jews, Christians and Muslims call "God" or the "Divine." It is compassion, says the Buddha, which brings you to Nirvana. Why? Because in compassion, when we feel with the other, we dethrone ourselves from the center of our world and we put another person there.
Es un hecho fascinante que, sin excepción, en todas y cada una de las principales religiones, la compasión, la capacidad de sentirse con el prójimo como lo hemos estado planteando hoy, no es sólo la prueba de la religiosidad verdadera, sino lo que nos lleva a la presencia de lo que judíos, cristianos y musulmanes denominan "Dios" o "lo divino".