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Compassion and cosmic oneness

Does the state of compassion imply a cosmic oneness that blurs the notions of self and other, time and space, and life and death?

Compassion vs Indiffernce

In the act of a fox chasing a Nubian Ibex, what does compassion mean for an onlooker? Is it simply indifference?

Interpretive lens

Is it possible to see the self, let alone the others, with no agenda or artifactual lens whatsoever?

Compassion and meanings

Compassion seems to require an ability to not just understand the "meanings" others attach to their actions, but to appreciate the idiosyncratic circumstances that may have necessitated those specific meanings and not others.

Compassion and value judgment

Could compassion coexist with value judgment?

Compassion

It is at the moment I stamp the creature as a "pest" that I realize how afar off compassion I am.

Compassion and less-privileged

The less-privileged must have a foresight into our impending misery, for they seem invariably endowed with compassion.

Compassion

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Compassion consists of attention to or noticing of suffering; empathetic concern, a felt relation with the other; and action to lessen or relieve suffering.

Kanov, J. M., Maitlis, S., Worline, M. C., Dutton, J. E., Frost, P. J., & Lilius, J. M. (2004). Compassion in organizational life. American Behavioral Scientist, 47(6), 808–827.

Misery and Company: Sympathy in Everyday Life, Clark. (n.d.). Retrieved November 15, 2012, from http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo3631372.html