Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
This idea of compassion comes to us because we're made in the image of God, who is ultimately the compassionate one.
When compassion wakes up in us, we find ourselves more willing to become vulnerable, to take the risk of entering the pain of others.
Compassion enables you to reach to the heavens and look through the heart of God.
Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self.
Many of us think that compassion drains us, but I promise you it is something that truly enlivens us.
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.
As Christians, our compassion is simply a response to the love that God has already shown us.
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.
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.
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