Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.
Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.
Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.
Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
This idea of compassion comes to us because we're made in the image of God, who is ultimately the compassionate one.
Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.
Compassion is no substitute for justice.
No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.
Compassion is a two way street.