Compassion can never coexist with judgment (Henri Nouwen)

To die to our neighbors means to stop judging them, to stop evaluating them, and thus to become free to be compassionate.  Compassion can never coexist with judgment because judgment creates the distance, the distinction, which prevents us from really being with the other.

--Henri Nouwen, 

The Way of the Heart:

The Spirituality of the Desert 

Fathers and Mothers

Image source:  Odilon Redon, Christ and the Samaritan Woman / The White Flower Bouquet (1895), 
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Paintings_of_Jesus_and_the_Samaritan_woman_at_the_well#/media/File:1895_Redon_Christus_und_Samariterin_anagoria.JPG