inter self compassion
We need not so much self-compassion, as inter self compassion. Here inter does double duty. Its first is between two persons. Self here points to persons: foregrounds; real; known, but only somewhat. Compassion is a surrounding (see the compass?), and feeling together (com). The second duty of inter is to hint at the intimate nature of the human project. This is its larger duty, the one most essential. For we are not human without intimacy.
:- Doug.
