Some people are filled by compassion and a desire to do good, and some simply don't think anything's going to make a difference.
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I find that in the 21st century, there's not a lot of compassion for what other people are going through or the walk that they have to walk.
Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self.
Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.
Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.
It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.
People with lower incomes tend to give a greater percentage of their incomes to help others and show greater empathy and compassion - perhaps because they know they might face the same circumstances.
Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.
When compassion wakes up in us, we find ourselves more willing to become vulnerable, to take the risk of entering the pain of others.
I think compassion is an important quality in people in general.
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