Love & Compassion are necessities, they are not luxuries without them humanity can not survive. ~ Dalai Lama
Compassion is comprised from that capacity to see clearly in to the nature of suffering, is the ability to really stand strong and to recognize also that I'm not separate from this suffering.
Compassion has enemies and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage & fear.
“When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.” ~ Stephen Levine