But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.
Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.
It is sometimes difficult to view compassion and loving kindness as the strengths they are.
True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it.
I think compassion is an important quality in people in general.
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 doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.
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.
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.