Concept
Compassion
Recognising someone else's pain as the same kind of thing as your own, and acting like it.
9 passages · 4 traditions
Buddhist
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Dhammapada 3–6"They abused me, they hit me! They beat me, they robbed me!" For those who bear such a grudge, hatred is never laid to rest. "They abused me, they hit me! They beat me, they robbed me!" For…ScriptureRead as scripture by its tradition
Sutta Nipāta 1.8, “The Discourse on Love”Let them be capable and upright, very upright, easy to speak to, gentle and humble; content and unburdensome, unbusied, living lightly, alert, with senses calmed, courteous, not fawning on f…
Christian
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1 Corinthians 13:4–7Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud, doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil; d…ScriptureRead as scripture by its tradition
John 11:33–36When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled, and said, "Where have you laid him?" They told him, "Lord, come and…ScriptureRead as scripture by its tradition
Luke 10:30–35Jesus answered, “A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead. By chance a certa…ScriptureRead as scripture by its tradition
Matthew 5:43–48"You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I tell you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray fo…
Jewish
Stoic
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Enchiridion XVIWhen you see anyone weeping for grief, either that his son has gone abroad or that he has suffered in his affairs, take care not to be overcome by the apparent evil, but discriminate and be…PhilosophyA philosophical argument
Meditations II.1Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busybody, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial. All these things happen to them by reason of their ignorance o…