Strength of empathy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n As depicted in the landscape of empathy<\/a>, this entails not being washed away by the emotional stream of the empathized one. Sitting in a boat on that stream, one can control where to go to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sympathy and emotional contagion are depicted in that landscape as stages toward less control. On the other hand, detached concern is one of more control but from a distance. In this sense, empathy strikes a balance \u2015 just that. In that balance, a strength can be found to do good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Compassion<\/a>, this goes further in depth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Strength of Compassion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n One doesn\u2019t help another person by being weak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the other hand, Compassion is about understanding the other from the inside out by overlapping \u2015 including in weakness. One cannot truly understand if one doesn\u2019t feel the weakness from inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Therefore, Compassion is a combination of this understanding and<\/em> of Inner Strength<\/a>. In writing, this seems simple. In reality, the happening is transcendent \u2015 each time again. One gets transformed through realizing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Don\u2019t get me wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This transformation is like a spiritual act.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n That is also where the strength of Compassion originates. Now, one can go from here into religious exaltation or just into being present as a simple human being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Or both simultaneously, which is really interesting, but let\u2019s take the more conceptual route from here on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n