Compassion is the capacity to stay present with suffering without turning away from it. It’s not pity, rescue, or the need to erase another person’s pain, but the willingness to meet suffering with an open heart while honoring the dignity of the one who carries it. Compassion expands when love dissolves self-centeredness and allows another’s pain to become as important to us as our own. It asks you to stay where discomfort would rather leave, discovering that healing often begins not when suffering disappears, but when no one has to bear it alone. Here, compassion becomes the natural expression of someone who recognizes themselves in every life.