Compassion
February 20, 2021•103 words
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Don't know if it's just me, but I think we're forgetting about compassion.
A while ago I wrote about reciprocity. Compassion, a similar concept, is about "sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it". So it's about helping other people, helping with their distress.
It's hard to help without ego, but there's no place for ego in compassion. It needs to be real, honest, to exist. It can't be polluted with ego, because then it stops being compassion - it turns into using others.
Too much compassion can bury someone, sure.
Too little compassion will bury us all.