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“Dear little Swallow,” said the Prince, “you tell me of marvellous things, but more marvellous than anything is the suffering of men and women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery. Fly over my city, little Swallow, and tell me what you see there.”

- from The Happy Prince, Oscar Wilde


If the swallow survived to tell the tales of what it saw, perhaps it would be this collection: The Prince in Exile and other tales.


The Prince in Exile and other tales, like Voices from the Pit, was written and completed in 1995 and is published now for the first time in 2006.


A decade after it was written, I can see where The Prince in Exile and other tales fits in: it is part of an exercise that develops compassion for all forms of life. Like Voices from the Pit, it is a preliminary exercise in the long journey to that Bodhisattva state in which one’s compassion is selfless, boundless and unconditional.

 

 

- from the Introduction, The Prince in Exile and other tales