Compassion: see yourself in all

When you see someone wrong, suffering, acting out of ego or ignorance, you don't judge anymore, you don't get angry, you don't walk away. You understand: "I've been that way, too, I've been wrong, I've suffered without knowing." You look at the person and you see a human being like you, trying to be happy, trying to protect yourself, trying to live, doing the best you can with what you know. Compassion is not pity, it is recognition. It's loving each other as part of yourself. And when you love, you help, you accept, you teach with the example, without demanding anything.