Compassion is a strange thing. By definition, compassion invokes sympathy, pity, and perhaps even sadness for others’ misfortunes or sufferings. Compassion often drives people with a sense of desire ...

We often speak of compassion in a soft voice, linking it to charity and consolation. But what if we have had it wrong for ...

A cancer nurse focuses on alleviating or reducing the anxiety patients often feel when undergoing cancer treatment. The work performed by Jeannette Mazzola, M.S.N., APRN-CNP, AOCNP, AGPCNP-BC, ...

At the Jaipur Literature Festival, Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi argued that compassion is a measurable force that can ...

Compassion is an important concept in medicine. This is why it is frequently discussed in medical school applications. However, compassion often is used as a buzzword without sufficient attention to ...

Compassion has not always been a word in my vocabulary. And, truth be told, I’ve been accused – accurately so – of lacking compassion. At a certain time and moment, any of us can. I can, anyway. Maybe ...

Do you know the difference between compassion and Biblical compassion? Random House defines compassion as “a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune, accompanied ...

A Native-American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, “I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf ...

Have you ever tried to help someone only to see things get worse? Has your compassion for a self-destructive person ever led to more self-destruction? The problem is that the brain learns from rewards ...