An senior was once asked.

An senior was once asked, What is a compassionate heart? He replied: It is a heart forward fire for the whole of creation, for humanity, for the birds, for the animals, for evil spirits and for all that exists. At the recollection and at the sight of them similar a persons eyes overflow with tears owing to the vehemence of the compassion which grips his heart; as a be derived of his deep mercy his heart shrinks and cannot bear to hear or expect on any injury or the slightest suffering of anything in creation.

--St Isaac the Syrian

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