Pity always comes from the top positions down to it, you can always substitute the word "poor". To occupy a position "above" another person, you need to take a position on something nepremennym inside. Such detachment is necessary in order to feel less experience.
The pain of another person causes in us a response — a memory of their own pain. And if this pain to end is not recognized and not experienced, not understood, not released, invariably, meeting with naccatum another person, you will feel pity.
Pity is not a very pleasant feeling, he wants to get rid of. And then, in order not to experience this feeling, I want to start to do something: to save, to advise, to help, to do something for another person.
Compassion is the position of equals. She says: "I know how deep can be a pain". Compassion comes when you realize that everyone in pain endlessly alone, and that's to take away the pain of another person is impossible, you can only share it with him in our common space between us.published
Author: Anna Paulsen
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