Our impulses to join with suffering are our way of sharing the load and alleviating the weight of the pain. Tending to our capacity to feel compassion may be like tending to our truest nature, nurturing our core truth — that we all suffer and all seek to be unburdened from our suffering. How do you care for your compassionate heart?
[image description: A heart with a concerned facial expression stands outside under a starry sky cradling its own heart, which also looks on with a concerned facial expression at another heart sitting nearby on a rock. The concerned heart touches the shoulder of the seated heart. The seated heart slumps forward and away from the concerned heart with a depressed facial expression, holding its forehead in its hand. The sad heart's heart looks back toward the concerned heart with a slight smile. Text reads: "Nurture compassion."]