I think compassion is important but love fizzles out eventually. But if there is compassion in a relationship, things can always be worked out.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think compassion is an important quality in people in general.
Many of us think that compassion drains us, but I promise you it is something that truly enlivens us.
Compassion, not passion, keeps a marriage together.
Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.
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 has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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.
This idea of compassion comes to us because we're made in the image of God, who is ultimately the compassionate one.
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 alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
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