I just read one of the best conceptualizations of compassion that I’ve ever read outside of the Holy Scripture: Hebrew [chesed]: To love tenderly, to have mercy, compassion upon anyone “Compassion is ...

Compassion is one of the most celebrated human qualities. Across cultures and traditions, it is upheld as a virtue, an ideal, and a guiding light for how we relate to one another. In Buddhism, ...

At the Jaipur Literature Festival, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Kailash Satyarthi made a bold claim: the most important human metric of the future will not be intelligence or emotional skill, but ...

Many people assume that self-compassion and compassion are related. After all, they both involve kindness—only the object of the kindness differs (ourselves versus another person). They both seem to ...

You see yourself as a compassionate person. You are easily pained by other people’s suffering and want to ease it. However, acting solely on that desire falls short of being fully compassionate. An ...

Some people find it easy to be kind, until they have to turn that compassion inward. Here are the signs you might be lacking in self-compassion. It’s not at all an uncommon experience to be deeply ...

BRATTLEBORO — Since the town signed the Charter for Compassion in 2017, there has been a lot of behind-the-scenes work going on. Now, a new discussion series sets out to get more people involved in ...