Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and to sense what will truly serve others.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.
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.
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.
True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it.
Compassion enables you to reach to the heavens and look through the heart of God.
As Christians, our compassion is simply a response to the love that God has already shown us.
I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'
Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.
Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.
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.