We are, each of us, battling back against our innate kindness, with which we are fairly bursting, at every turn. Why? Because ‘real kindness is an exchange with essentially unpredictable consequences. It is a risk precisely because it mingles our needs and desires with the needs and desires of others, in a way that so-called self-interest never can.’
“
| — | NYTimes Book Review of “On Kindness” by Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor |
