Why Compassion and Empathy is central to Spirituality

[Scholar]

It is because God shows ultimate compassion to all of Creation. God is so compassionate that he will feel every bit of suffering of every creautre that exist. There is nothing for which he has no compassion. He understands all suffering, because he is all suffering.

His compassion is direct, his empathy is complete. That's why embodying the Essence of the Divine means to be compassionate. It means to learn how to suffer, not to learn how to escape it. To feel everything there is to feel.

 

Compassion is Being, it is Connection and Union. Human empathy is nothing but a premature version of the Compassion of God, an imitation of a deeper truth