| compassion | In consciousness and in action, empathic sensitivity to human beings' needs - including both one's own and others' needs.1
Note
1Although this is strictly my own definition, I'm grateful for what I've learned from the work of Marshall Rosenberg - including from his book, Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life - and the degree
to which it has informed and influenced my formulation of this definition.
I can't imagine having formulated this definition in this manner without Marshall Rosenberg's influence.
Prior to having discovered the work of Marshall Rosenberg, I also benefited from consulting the following reference.
"compassion," Answers.com, Reference,
Words, WordNet (A semantic lexicon of word connections and related words.) http://www.answers.com/topic/compassion [June 24, 2005]
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