About compassion

Came across a youtube video about a child protody today. This kid graduated from Washionton University with three degrees at age of 14 and just is doing his PhD on Neuron science at age 16 at Stanford University. He is outstanding athelet winning competition in swimming and thirantholon. During his spare time, he and his brother started an organization called the Worlds' children aiming to help children from developing and underdeveloped countries. When his father was interviewed about what else is important apart from his academic education, his father replied "compassion, we educate him to be compassionate about things and the world around". I was soon attracted by the concept being compassionate. What is compassion? The clearest definition is from Wikilipedia so far "Compassion is an understanding of the emotional state of another or oneself. Not to be confused with empathy, compassion is often combined with a desire to alleviate or reduce the suffering of another or to show special kindness to those who suffer. However, compassion may lead an individual to feel empathy with another person."
Almost all major religions in the word talk about compassion. “Clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience”

Bible quotes

Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.”

Buddha quotes (Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.)

“Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.”

Dalai Lama quotes (Head of the Dge-lugs-pa order of Tibetan Buddhists, 1989 Nobel Peace Prize, b.1935)

“A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.”

Abraham J. Heschel quotes (Jewish theologian and philosopher, 1907-1972) In addition,

“A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”

Albert Einstein quotes (German born American Physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)