Compassion starts when one creates it within one own self and once that emotion is created , then one can be compassionate to other beings around you and then spread in your area where you live , then to the city and then finally to the country and then on a global scale. In today's world, with the tools available with us like the internet , it is easily possible to spread your thoughts, feelings about compassion and I have experienced and practised it as I connect with my friends worldwide on the internet and we share our thoughts and feelings and implement these ideas about compassion in our own day to day lives .

Compassion is seeing the other, whomever that might be, in ourself/ourselves. It is acknowledging, without a specific religious/ethnic perspective, that we all have shared values/goals of being treated with respect, even if on the surface it may be difficult to see. This may be the case even with an abuser, terrorist, etc. Clearly they are lashing out at something. For humanity to evolve beyond the current religious/political stalemate that exists in so many places we must elevate our perspective in the form of compassion so that we can transform the world we live in. Otherwise, I fear, we face a far greater risk to our humanity than we are currently experiencing.

Let compassion rein doing

There exists no greater, more urgent need than to acknowledge and help alleviate the suffering of our neighbor. Our neighbor is our witness and testimony bearer to how we have chosen to live our life. The world is a globe with neither an identifiable beginning nor an expected end. Compassion is now hereby chosen to become our global spiritual currency. With a penumbra expansion both locally and globally, we set forth to reach territories both foreign and domestic.

There exists no greater, more urgent need than to acknowledge and help alleviate the suffering of our neighbor. Our neighbor is our witness and testimony bearer to how we have chosen to live our life. The world is a globe with neither an identifiable beginning nor an expected end. Compassion is now hereby chosen to become our global spiritual currency. With a penumbra expansion both locally and globally, we set forth to reach territories both foreign and domestic.

We live in a time when it's impossible to ignore what connects us (if we ever could!) Waste, weapons, weather, and war move across boundaries we devise. Media bring distant disasters into our homes daily. Our global predicament calls for concentrated, united action, which only becomes possible as we make heartfelt alliance with those who may differ from us superficially, but who ultimately possess our same human longings and griefs.

"all of the above" apply Compassion as "each of the above"

Compassion can't really be expected from ordinary people caught up in daily living today unless the human biological constitution is 'slowed down'. Otherwise we remain the savanna hominid of our evolution, driven by tribal identification and individualistic competitiveness. We have to introduce some kind of meditation into early education, and then organise society so that the habit can be sustained throughout the lifespan. Gottama buddha achieved this by instituting the Sangha, and we can take heart from the fact of its being the longest-lived human institution.

Compassion transcends time and space, but its cultivation and expression is essential at this time on earth.

Over the next few decades the world faces unprecedented challenges. Poverty, starvation, war and corruption remain stains on our collective consciences. Global warming will make solutions harder whilst pandemics of new diseases are a real threat. We know that we have both the technology and the money to solves these problems. What we lack is the will. We do not have enough compassion to apply what we know. Never mind the credit crunch. Our biggest moral problem is the compassion gap!

To embrace a new world view; to see people as human beings first and foremost. We are all fallible and will always disappoint one another because of expectations. Even though we may disagree with someone's belief, to not take it personally. Acceptance plays a key role leading to forgiveness. Forgiveness leads to a more compassionate global world.

I'm not sure compassion has a voice as such. And the question implies a political platform of some kind. But what would it sound like? Sometimes compassion could dictate things be said we don't want to hear. Compassion isn't always soothing and warm, it isn't always about feeling good and happy, it can be tough and uncomfortable, but it always has meaning that goes beyond self centered interests. In any case, compassion requires wisdom for it to be useful, so if this is talking about a voice with some kind of political platform, whatever is being said, will make sense and speak to our inner worth at the same time that it talks about taking the hard steps required to alleviate the problems we find ourselves in. Compassion is always needed, now more than ever.

The most urgent and important choice humanity faces today is whether to allow the voices of faith-based hatred and divisiveness to dominate our world, or whether to put aside our differences and unite in the universal understanding that compassion for all trumps a proud religious "victory" for some. Life is not a zero sum game: when we all love one another for our common humanity and treat each other with compassion, the whole world wins; but when we hate and fight against one another for religious reasons, the whole world loses. This is especially true in this uniquely dangerous age of nuclear bombs and other weapons of mass destruction -- a time when the world seems smaller than ever before even as our problems are the largest they have ever been. Our world cannot endure another century reaping the whirlwind of angry religious exclusivism without seeing the field of our lives and our planet thoroughly destroyed in the process; but if we unite in true spiritual compassion even though we may disagree on religious doctrine, the 21st century can become a time of unprecedented healing and rebirth for humankind.

Discussions need to be translatable into actions in order for this charter to have any meaning and/or significance. That is the sense of urgency that I don't see in these discussions. For me compassion comes from empathy and not pity or a duty designated by a divine will. When you genuinely can feel other's sorrow and share their joy as though it was your own, then compassion takes on the meaning that is fit for such a charter. Seeking a common link through our common conscious thoughts and wills is far overdue and an absolutely critical issue at this time for humanity to survive. It is available to us all and can step beyond socioeconomic, geopolitical and religious barriers. Keeping it simple is just that. Simple. Projecting good thoughts toward those with a need for it, whether you like their circumstances or their perceived differences or not. It's not about us and how WE feel it's about others. Seeking to find those with needs is also simple as there is a great abundance of need out of tragedy, disease, ignorance and oppression. Eventually it may actually become your preferred state of mind as there is nothing more powerful and inspiring than the connection and energy that comes when you can share your goodwill and get feedback from that action and know you did and can make a difference no matter how small. Don't try to understand it simply let it go and project. Enlightenment comes when you no longer need the feedback and physical evidence of each of your actions and simply understand that projecting good thoughts, ideas and hopes sends an energy throughout our physical realm that is there for others to perceive and draw from. We are all linked through this global collective consciousness. Whether you understand it scientifically or simply identify it spiritually and have faith that it exists, doesn't matter. Those who are the "show me" kind, yes there are in fact experiments being done, at Yale among other places that seeks to identify and quantify scientifically the energy we refer to as global collective consciousness. Just try it. Simply thinking of something positive to project affects YOU the projector. Let higher powers and mother nature take care of the projectee. Be humble and be confident that good begets good whether it is in thought, will or deed. Trying to define what compassion and empathy is simply projects one's own bias. Sensing and feeling another's circumstance and not projecting a preconceived ideal is the first step. Perhaps more people should involve themselves with ONE person and/or one family to begin with, in order to develope a universal sense of needs outside of themselves. Simply put, ask someone what they need and what their troubles are and what THEY would like and what would make them feel better. Once we can learn to empathise with one we can BEGIN to empathise with others and impliment compassion on a broader scale.

We are faced by many threats that endangering life on this globe. Most of them are human-made. Thinking beyond the immediate causes of those threats, we realize that they occurred because lack of compassion. When humans attempted to exploit nature for their own pleasure, they were selfish and lacked compassion. As a result, they polluted the atmosphere, and have to change their policies and strategies with dealing with environment. They need more to make this policies effective; they need to cultivate compassion toward the natural world, so they would not exhaust the natural resources. By cultivating compassion, humans could stop killing each others in wars, and peace would prevail. We need compassion to initiate global policy for eradicating poverty, and make health services available to all citizens of the world. Compassion can change our future.

The universe’s real currency - is the exchange of energy. (Lynne Mc Taggart, The Field.) Love is an energy that defies words. Giving is receiving. (A Course In Miracles.) The joy of living should have no price tag. You must be willing to acknowledge our mutual need and our mutual humanity. Nothing grows in a vacuum. In quantum theory the simple process of observation changes the outcome. Science does not believe we are ultimately indivisible but, the belief in dualism keeps us believing we can be separate and succeed. This is not so. We must bounce off of like life forces or the energy dies. We all need to be needed and or interdependence brings us much more fulfillment than our isolation. Understanding and love are the keys to proper living. You must give them away in order to receive them.

True compassion for ourselves, for what is really in our own hearts, what we really need in order to live our lives fully and joyfully, is the starting point for global compassion. When we really know what we need and can ask others in a spirit of mutual care and interdependence to help us get it, and are prepared then to do the same for them, we begin to leave hatred and blame behind. Fundamentally we all have the same needs for care, love and security, and when we work together to meet those needs we will all be winners. My faith in this one truth guides all my actions in the world, from the personal to the global.

The biggest problem on this planet right now is lack of knolwdge and understanding amongst religions. RELIGIONS The entire Buddhist monk’s life is but a preparation, For his Death Point or moment of separation. The Jains have santhara, Quitting life consciously to join with the paramatma. Hindus go into Samadhi, Where there is no Congress, Shiv Sena, BJP or Samajwadi. The Christian merges with the Holy Spirit, Peace, no more desperate. The Sufi mystic to become one, Dances, twirls, prays, trances to get the job done. Aghora means Illumined with Light, Longing for Shiva in whom they delight. Shamanism or the Art of Ecstasy, The ultimate being one with the super entity. There is no need to change your faith, And on your old religion lay a wreath.

Compassion has been vital to our existence since the first time man disregarded the laws of interdependence. With the proliferation of people and technologies these disrespectful acts are magnified. Compassion is our greatest natural resource to be used as a tool and weapon in our quest to restore an ecologically and sociologically sound planet.

The globalization of societies and the increasing explicit interconnectedness of individuals is a testament to the nature of our universe. We are finally realizing the implications of interconnected collective consciousness. However as all religion tells us, we cannot quit the "good fight" that is compassion; the understanding of the nature of our situation and the appropriate response. However, as our society becomes closer we also struggle with further complexity and differentiation within it. This "chatter" cannot rise above the acoustics of the sacred ideal- expressed within religion. For the moment complexity supersedes union we will become a doomed species, without hope, overwhelmed by darkness and ignorance.

Compassionate energy is the only powerful, renewable and indomitable force for good in our world. We discover it with simple tools: awareness and acceptance; we harvest it with presence and stillness; we use it through simply living without fear and hate, without regard for past and future, unburdened from judgment and comparison. Compassion transforms our senses and our souls, but only through the alchemy of the collective. Individually, we are powerless, but together we are a brilliant, eternal sun.

Compassion is an urgent global need because it is in the heart of a path(s)that can save humanity from two devastating maladies: 1-materialism. 2-extremism in the name of religion. Both deprived humans from experiencing their divine entities, both led humans to a superficial life, and both led to cultures based on separation, superiority and violence. The basic principles of the present civilization per se are short of bringing cure to those maladies because they lack the catalyst for allowing human beings experience the harmony that can exist between mind, spirit, and body. Humanity needs wholeness through enhancing diverse cultures that encourage people to realize the spiritual aspect of life without insulting the findings of the scientific knowledge or humiliating the physical needs. Wholeness shall be the fruit because balance is the core of the natural laws that control the whole creation both on the physical and the metaphysical level. Compassion is a motivating force for wholeness, and also a continuous fruit of a meaningful and purposeful life.

With all the choices we have today, it is difficult to pick a religion that would be the right one for us. The one commonality in all faith based religions is compassion. I would suspect that people who have never been exposed to any formal religion, still hold that, feeling good and doing the right thing for their fellow human beings is first. All religions can take a lesson from the simplest belief, that, although they may have a different name for their belief, the feelings are the same. We just have to see through all our misinterpretations of scriptures to find the common factor.

Without compassion, there is no humanity.

Poised at the beginning of a new millennium we find ourselves confronted by an escalating crisis of wellbeing for humans, other species and for the planet itself. Much of which is brought about by human actions. We must acknowledge a condition of interrelationship of being with each other and all creation, a co-arising with our companions in the world. We must acknowledge in our condition of being, with its many expressions of individual and collective frailty, there is the co-occurring possibility of genuine loving kindness toward ourselves and others. In our own poverty, powerlessness or even in our endless human arrogance, this possibility through the cultivation of compassion is the seed of ongoing conversion of heart and radical transformation. Although we come from diverse faith traditions or none at all, we must enter the unity and transforming power of compassion a our world is in great need.