Using Compassion to Empower
Does Your Compassion Weaken or Empower? Some think compassion is truest when we personally feel the other person's pain. We feel so much, in fact, that we are in pain along with them. It’s as if the mantra for compassion is, “the more you suffer, the more you really care.” I recently read an article comparing this ideal to being in a boat where you see someone drowning and instead of helping them into the boat, you hop in with them. Now there are two people drowning. Now ther