Many of us think that compassion drains us, but I promise you it is something that truly enlivens us.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
As Christians, our compassion is simply a response to the love that God has already shown us.
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.
Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.
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 isn't morose; it's something replenishing and opening; that's why it makes us happy.
Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.
Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self.
Compassion enables you to reach to the heavens and look through the heart of God.
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