Compassion
Feeling another's pain with them, and being moved to help carry it.
From Latin compati, “to suffer with”: com- (“together”) + pati (“to suffer”).
Definition in our own plain words, after Merriam-Webster; word root traced via the Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com).
How do you speak to yourself when no one is listening?
Share one way you're practicing self-compassion this week.
Hero’s Checkpoint Travel Notes
You are not the first hero to walk this road. At every weekly checkpoint of the journey, the heroes before you have left something behind: tips, tricks, and honest conversations about each theme, from Safety all the way to Community. Open the mailbox, read what they learned the hard way, and when you’ve passed a checkpoint yourself, leave a note for the hero behind you.
Checkpoint 15 has its own page in the mailbox: what compassion asked of the heroes who walked it, in their words.
Open the mailbox ▸Where this checkpoint keeps going
For compassion that keeps costing you
Follow this thread ▸The hub: everything we have made for the sensitive ones
Follow this thread ▸100 recipes for love, compassion, and connection
Follow this thread ▸Where compassion sits in the arc
Follow this thread ▸One checkpoint at a time: sit with the reflection for the week, then, if it serves you, share inside the free community. No one grades you. No one is keeping score. The only reader your answers need is you.
Prefer the rainbow? This checkpoint lives in the Heart Chakra on the light side of the map, or browse everything we’ve made by topic.
Matched from the library: the Emotional Literacy Program works this stretch of the journey in depth.
The frequency of this checkpoint: the tradition tunes this month to 639 Hz, the connection tone, the frequency of the heart. Sound is real physics; the assignment is beloved lore, held lightly. Trace the whole ladder on the consciousness map or the science on the frequency pages.
Logic or light, we all carry values. Pick the three words that matter most to you, anonymously, and watch them join the community’s living tally.
Add your three words ▸