If you have ever experienced compassion you’ll know that it is one of the essentials of any good relationships. In the family, in friendship, in love compassion is the ability to know deeply the joys and troubles of another and to enter into them. You might sometimes ask yourself, ‘What is really going on in the people I am close to, my best friend, father, sister, mother, etc?’ We may live close to people and yet be unaware of how they really are.
Compassion is like a key opening a stiff door: it invites you to be yourself and to share yourself, to experience that nobody is alone in the world and those joys and troubles shared are moments of grace and growth.