Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other's well-being, is source of happiness.
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.
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.
We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and holding on.
To live in the midst of suffering, which we do, we do, amid distress, and to keep some equilibrium in the midst of that - that would be happiness enough.
What humans want is not just happiness. They want justice; they want meaning.
We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.
Compassion isn't morose; it's something replenishing and opening; that's why it makes us happy.
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.