Daily Archives: March 11, 2015

Pity vs. Self Pity

In Earth & Altar, Eugene H. Peterson says.   Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble. Pity is the capacity to enter into the pain of another in order to do something about it; self-pity is an incapacity, a crippling emotional disease that severely distorts our perception of reality. Pity…