Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.
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This idea of compassion comes to us because we're made in the image of God, who is ultimately the compassionate one.
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.
The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.
Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. And compassion helps us as well.
As Christians, our compassion is simply a response to the love that God has already shown us.
When compassion wakes up in us, we find ourselves more willing to become vulnerable, to take the risk of entering the pain of others.
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.
If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
We're a migrant nation made up of people who've been torn out of other worlds, and you'd think we would have some compassion.
Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.
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