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"An individual
story of
compassion is not
important
- what is important is that one is capable of
compassion.
It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity."
Helen Hayes
Compassion, the essence of
an open heart must be
cultivated upon the journey
through life or it withers.
Compassion is not a sentimental and weak
response.
All great religions have seen compassion as the supreme
unifying principle of life.
Compassion is the key that unlocks the door which leads to
the noumenon.
The
catalyst of all
cooperation is the
neurochemical oxytocin which bonds human beings and eases
the natural
suspicion of strangers.
An added bonus is it makes
you happy.
When people
act compassionately toward each other oxytocin is
released.
compassion is defined as:to care for;
altruistic behavior;
a deep, tender,
ineffable feeling of affection
based upon an underlying sense of
oneness
"Large creatures lavish far more
care upon there young.
Longevity requires creatures to interact with
their own species over longer periods of time.
Lengthy nurturing
periods for the young help create a complex pattern of social behavior that
makes altruistic behavior advantageous.
When examining particular social
interactions in ancient times, there is a need to avoid assigning contemporary
values of costs and benefits, rather than those appropriate to those in a
primitive hunter-gatherer society.
We have inherited a liking for
sugary
and fatty
foods - a fact that
the food
industry and its advertising agencies
remorselessly exploit. Our instinctive liking for such foods is probably a
remnant of the huge calorific benefit of these scarce resources for early
hunter-gatherers.
Analysis of
optimal behavior patterns applies
to sharing food, exchanging services, exercising care over the young, hunting
on behalf of others, and so forth.
Analysis of
optimal behavior patterns leads us
to expect that the tactics of
bartering, and of games of strategy, will be activities for which humans
possess a transcultural affinity.
Analysis of
optimal behavior patterns shows
how social interaction - in particular, the repeated social interaction that
derives from longevity and large size in conditions where individualism did not
pay - has unexpected consequences for the
evolution of patterns of behavior that appear, at first sight, to run counter
to the expectations of natural
selection.
If we made contact with an extraterrestrial society, we
might expect that it evolved
from patterns of behavior that were once naturally selected for in preference to
others.
We should not be surprised, under appropriate circumstances, to
find cooperative, altruistic
behavior at the root of
most systems of religious
belief. " - John D. Barrow
"Compassion is the motion of
the spirit
within the
primordial energy of the noumenon.
The energy of compassion is
manifested in three actions:
In romantic compassion, the psyche moves
toward
the object of its erotic
affections.
In
philosophical compassion, the psyche contemplates the reality of nature through
the exercise of reason.
In
mystical compassion, the psyche
desires union with God -
harmonious
union of the human Eternal Soul
and the Soul of God (Agápe)." -
Dante
Aligheri
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