Compassion meaning

Compassion is one of those words that is easily thrown around. But it is a word full of so much meaning. I don't think I really understood what the word compassion really meant until I became a mother. It was as if right up until that moment everything I had done, suffered, learned, tried and experienced was preparing me for becoming a mother. I thought I had it all worked out. The baby arrives, along came sleepless nights, play dates, play groups, breast or bottle that was what I thought…

What is the difference between Empathy and Compassion? Empathy is the ability to identify and understand another person’s feelings. Compassion is a feeling

Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

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