Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.
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.
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.
True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it.
As Christians, our compassion is simply a response to the love that God has already shown us.
Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.
Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
Feeling compassion for ourselves in no way releases us from responsibility for our actions. Rather, it releases us from the self-hatred that prevents us from responding to our life with clarity and balance.
Many of us think that compassion drains us, but I promise you it is something that truly enlivens us.
Compassion is contempt with a human face.