By Eleonora Cornel
As Yogi Bhajan used to say: “The other person is you.” A clear enough sentence, and one that’s easy to put aside as a simplistic New Age mantra. Yet to me, it represents the essence of compassion, an exquisite, minimalist way to express such complex concepts as the oneness of human nature. The counter-intuitive yet true fact that, in whatever way I might differ from the random person next to me on a busy city street anywhere in the world, it is much greater that what makes us alike than what makes us different.