Compassion; the highest form of love

Published January 18, 2016 | By Will Tuttle

With love and understanding awakening in us, compassion expands to include ever-larger circles of beings.
Compassion may be seen as the highest form of love, for it is the love of the divine whole for all its parts and is reflected in the love of the parts for each other. It includes the urge to act to relieve the suffering of apparent others, and this urge requires us to evolve greater wisdom and inner freedom to relieve suffering more effectively.
Compassion is thus both the fruit of evolution and the driving force behind it. Love yearns for greater love.