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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This idea of compassion comes to us because we're made in the image of God, who is ultimately the compassionate one.
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.
Many of us think that compassion drains us, but I promise you it is something that truly enlivens us.
When compassion wakes up in us, we find ourselves more willing to become vulnerable, to take the risk of entering the pain of others.
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.
Love and compassion don't at all have to make us weak, or lead us to losing discernment and vision. We just have to learn how to find them. And see, in truth, what they bring us.
Compassion is contempt with a human face.
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.
Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.
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