Compassion is a [[tenderness]] of [[heart]], it is a willingness to be emotionally [[touched]] by another, a willingness to extend one's emotional [[self]] toward another and [[receive]] emotion in return. [[Becoming]] increasingly compassionate, therefore, entails a [[progressive]] becoming fearless of one's own [[emotions]]. If you are afraid of [[feeling]] your own emotional state, you will be afraid of feeling another's. | Compassion is a [[tenderness]] of [[heart]], it is a willingness to be emotionally [[touched]] by another, a willingness to extend one's emotional [[self]] toward another and [[receive]] emotion in return. [[Becoming]] increasingly compassionate, therefore, entails a [[progressive]] becoming fearless of one's own [[emotions]]. If you are afraid of [[feeling]] your own emotional state, you will be afraid of feeling another's. |