A friend recently sent me this idea on compassion:

“Move in sympathy, not only to yourself, but to all beings.  

Come into compassion with the struggles of all others.  

Come into putting yourselves in the place of every man  

so that, knowing your own effort, you know also his,  

and you judge him with the utmost love –  

not that you do not see his needs and his undeveloped areas,  

but you know yourself and your own.

So you help where you can.”