The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When compassion wakes up in us, we find ourselves more willing to become vulnerable, to take the risk of entering the pain of others.
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.
Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.
This idea of compassion comes to us because we're made in the image of God, who is ultimately the compassionate one.
Compassion enables you to reach to the heavens and look through the heart of God.
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.
Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.
Compassion is the basis of morality.
Why does God endow us with compassion?
Compassion isn't morose; it's something replenishing and opening; that's why it makes us happy.