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May 13, 2026
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On Wednesday, May 13th at 7:00 p.m. , in the Auditorium of the Palencia Public Library , the book "Compassion in an Unjust World" by Juan José Tamayo will be presented. The event will feature remarks by the author, Juan José Tamayo, and the educator and politician Juan Ramón Lagunilla.

In its common usage, the word compassion sounds like sentimentality detached from practice, alien to political life; like moralistic behavior that masks the causes of injustice; like a vague sympathy felt from the outside or from above with a certain superiority complex. However, the true meaning of compassion is to put oneself in the place of those who suffer in a relationship of equality and empathy, to take on the pain of others as one's own, to internalize the other person within ourselves, to suffer not only with others, but in others, until one identifies with the one who suffers and with their suffering—something that is not easy but is necessary. Compassion requires actively participating in the suffering of others, thinking, understanding, and seeing reality through the eyes of the victims, of the impoverished, fighting against the causes that provoke it, and healing the wounds inflicted by injustice.
Compassion is a "passion" that spontaneously turns us toward the suffering of others and of oppressed nature, making us more human and more connected to the nature of which we are a part. To be a compassionate person, no prior affection is necessary; it is enough to consider those who suffer as equals. That is the true meaning of compassion as a principle and a virtue.

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  • Postal address Biblioteca Pública de Palencia - C/ Eduardo Dato, 4. municipality of Palencia . NaN. Palencia