The latter is very popular in Russian everyday culture: if you want to get a bureaucrat do something extra for you, in Russia you show up with a small badly dressed child. In Canada, anglophone culture, you emphasize the rules and the fairness of what you are asking for. I haven’t figured out the francophone side (the toughest bureaucracy I have come across) completely, but I think you have to put up a show and look very visually distressed, like clasp your hands, tear up, etc. They like to see a little drama here and thank God I have a little acting background

I first heard it at one of Laurie’s evening meditation sessions. We were discussing Buddhism and the idea of using both “head” and “heart” to examine at a situation.

So what if we examine the opposite side as well?: e.g. “Compassion without Truthfulness is (   fill-in-the-blank   )”.

From Carl Jung on the dual aspects of our minds (generally stereotyped as masculine/father and feminine/mother):

For purely psychological reasons I have, in other of my writings, tried to equate the masculine consciousness with the concept of Logos and the feminine with that of Eros. By logos I meant discrimination, judgement, insight, and by Eros I meant the capacity to relate [including empathy, connectedness, etc]. I regarded both concepts as intuitive ideas which cannot be defined accurately or exhaustively. From the scientific point of view this is regrettable, but from a practical one, it has value, since the two concepts mark out a field of experience which it is equally difficult to define. (Carl Jung, Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 14: Mysterium Coniunctionis, paragraph 224).