We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a necessity for our well-being, resilience, and survival.
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.
Most of us are shrinking in the face of psycho-social and physical poisons, of the toxins of our world. But compassion, the generation of compassion, actually mobilizes our immunity.
When compassion wakes up in us, we find ourselves more willing to become vulnerable, to take the risk of entering the pain of others.
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.
Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.
If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
Compassion isn't morose; it's something replenishing and opening; that's why it makes us happy.
This idea of compassion comes to us because we're made in the image of God, who is ultimately the compassionate one.
Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.
Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.
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