What does it take to be a truely compassionate being?
A ‘truly compassionate being’ begins with a demonstratable strength of character deepened by personal experience. Acquiring personal experience is not determined by an individual talent for compassion. As in all human experience, this individual ‘wisdom’ arrives only from facing one’s own life challenges head on with grace, a sense of humility and cooperation. Not only that, but if there is one, life’s profound ‘inner essence’ and ‘meaning’ ‘asks’ individuals to develop a healthy perception of those challenges without judgment. In some this is honed as a humane balance within, weighing both ‘good’ and ‘bad’ as perfect. This is not a semantic emotional juggling, it is accepting the coexistence of the whole Self, of one’s own humanity. It doesn’t matter whether personal life experience is wonderful or horrific, but the character of a person who understands each as a life lesson carries with them an empathic personae. In other words, they are able ‘to walk in anothers shoes.’ This empathy
