Compassion begins with sympathy and ends with empathy. When you seek to understand and consider the limitations of others, you are compassionate. This law is the beginning of servitude. Compassion eliminates all forms of selfishness and places others above self. Most people that have influenced their world and left a mark on life are and were compassionate people. Influencers have compassion. They are moved by compassion to administer justice and goodwill to all men.

You cannot love without being compassionate. Love and compassion work together. To be compassionate you have to feel the pains of others. You can report the problems of others and even document their sufferings. But if you don’t feel the way they feel, you can’t touch them. Many times when we see pictures of the sufferings of people from various parts of the world, we don’t respond with compassion. But after a massive disaster I keep hearing people say, “We thought this would never happen to us.” Until you’re hit by a plague, you have no idea what other people go through.

We live in a world in which we protect ourselves with fences of selfishness. Selfishness is one of the forces responsible for the state of the world at any given time. The other is love. Selfishness loses. Selflessness wins. A compassionate person says, “I may not profit from the contribution I make sometimes, but others will.” Compassion is contentment. It is realizing that the conditions of others affect me directly. This is why this law is also one of the laws of influence. Because when you have compassion, you will be moved to help others. You will be motivated to take action against injustice and speak out for the voiceless.