Love...or Compassion?

[ZenitYerkes]

Looked up compassion in the Royal Spanish Academy dictionary for its etymology, but the word soul popped out instead. Coincidence?

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Compassion, from the Latin compati, "to suffer together with".

Giving ourselves to the rest hurts our ego and our selfish animal instincts, but the power of compassion makes it easier. Passing through a difficult emotional phase is specially sorrowful; but as long as there are people who are ready to take care of your pain, it goes away with ease.

What makes this community so strong is that the matter of someone is someone else's concern too.

And that everybody is willing to help each other.

To suffer together and ease the pain.