Compassion

“Compassion is an awareness of others’ suffering coupled with a willingness to help ease their suffering. Compassion is powerful because it takes you out of your selfish tendencies and recognizes other beings as essentially the same as you. Compassion destroys the tendency to view others as objects. Cruelty persists in the world through seeing others as objects instead of connecting through a shared humanity, and compassion is the solvent that destroys this objectifying tendency.”                                          ~ James Wood