The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
This idea of compassion comes to us because we're made in the image of God, who is ultimately the compassionate one.
We all, I think, believe in compassion. If you look at all the world religions, all the main world religions, you'll find within them some teaching concerning compassion.
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.
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.
The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.
As Christians, our compassion is simply a response to the love that God has already shown us.
Compassion enables you to reach to the heavens and look through the heart of God.