This week, I’ve been exploring Guanyin (also spelled Kuan Yin), a Buddhist bodhisattva and the East Asian Goddess of Compassion. It’s little wonder millions worship this archetype of unalloyed empathy and protectress of women, fishermen, animals, sailors, and the imprisoned. She could easily be the Goddess of Writers, too, for empathy is essential to the… Continue reading The Goddess of Compassion