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What is Global Compassion and How Can We Attain It?

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Excerpts taken from Moving Toward Global Compassion pp. 13-16 In the last few years, there has been a renewed interest in compassion.

Yet focus on how another person’s suffering affects our own cognitive and emotional states and behavior is not new. There is a long history of research on related and not often clearly differentiated concepts such as empathy, emotional contagion, sympathy, and altruism.

The impetus for what I have written is my conviction that human society must move toward what I am calling global compassion: a concern to alleviate the suffering of anyone, regardless of their nationality, language, culture, or religion.

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