/ http://www.slideshare.net/images/logo.gif / 際際滷Share feed for 際際滷shows by User: SebastianJohn2 https://cdn.slidesharecdn.com/profile-photo-SebastianJohn2-48x48.jpg?cb=1523281324 Three passions have governed my life: The longings for love, the search for knowledge, And unbearable pity for the suffering of humankind. Love brings ecstasy and relieves loneliness. In the union of love I have seen In a mystic miniature the prefiguring vision Of the heavens that saints and poets have imagined. With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of people. I have wished to know why the stars shine. Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens, But always pity brought me back to earth; Cries of pain reverberated in my heart Of children in famine, of victims tortured And of old people left helpless. I long to alleviate th