I am sorry for the empathy

To empathize with my anger and grief

And the emotional part. Empathy has basically two channels

Well that's going to be a breeding ground for compassion.

But compassion has another component, and that component is really essential.

Our cultural imagination about compassion has been deadened by idealistic images.

And compassion can also have those qualities.

And if compassion is so good for us, why don't we vote on compassion?

And they have actualized compassion through direct action.

And what is fascinating is that compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.

I developed a sense of compassion sort of as second nature, but I became a preacher.

Please don't mistake my persistance for any lack of sympathy.

The only people who don't experience shame have no capacity for human empathy or connection.

The only people who don't experience shame have no capacity for human empathy or connection.

And what is fascinating is that compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.

And so the idea of role play is both as an empathy tool, as well as a tool for prototyping experiences.

But of course, what you said, I think the key to saving the world, the key to compassion is that it is more fun.

Body on the Line marks the International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian Political Prisoners with this post.

So I want to propose a final definition of compassion this is Einstein with Paul Robeson by the way and that would be for us to call compassion a spiritual technology.

Imagine the courage of people that broke the laws of the state to honour the higher law of caring for human life.

Compassion can't be reduced to sainthood any more than it can be reduced to pity.

Women have manifested for thousands of years the strength arising from compassion in an unfiltered, unmediated way in perceiving suffering as it is.

Now compassion, when it enters the news, too often comes in the form of feel good feature pieces or sidebars about heroic people you could never be like or happy endings or examples of self sacrifice that would seem to be too good to be true most of the time.

I draw your attention to this not to be melodramatic. I just want to warn against the mortal sin of slandering the innocent.

Women have manifested for thousands of years the strength arising from compassion in an unfiltered, unmediated way in perceiving suffering as it is.

So I want to propose a final definition of compassion this is Einstein with Paul Robeson by the way and that would be for us to call compassion a spiritual technology.

Ghonim's tears as he mourned the victims killed by Mubarak's regime during the protests, is believed to have rallied even more people towards the cause.

In making its modest contribution as a symbol of compassion and solidarity with the victims, the Tunisian authorities, at the behest of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, have equipped four planes to carry humanitarian assistance in the form of food, blankets, tents and medicine.

Other plates show scenes from the same story or incident, as in plates and ( This is bad and This is how it happened ), in which a monk is murdered by French soldiers looting church treasures a rare sympathetic image of the clergy, who are generally shown to be on the side of oppression and injustice.