Abraham Lincoln on the best way to relieve your own suffering

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own 

Abraham Lincoln

 See Schwartz  and Sendor (1999) Helping others helps oneself: response shift eff€ects in peer support  for empircal support.
http://old.dsav.asn.au/research/Helping%20others%20helps%20oneself%20by%20Schwartz%20&%20Sendor.pdf

How compassion can help someone hearing voices - and maybe the rest of us too ...

www.compassionforvoices.com

Paul Gilbert on the nature of compassion

Compassion is a sensitivity to suffering with a commitment to try to alleviate and prevent that suffering.

Paul Gilbert, psychologist and founder of CFT (Compassion Focussed Therapy)