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Many of us think that compassion drains us, but I promise you it is something that truly enlivens us.

But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.

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 is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self.

The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.

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.

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.

This idea of compassion comes to us because we're made in the image of God, who is ultimately the compassionate one.

Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.