Some small businesses choose to self-insure. Story Highlights. NorthBay Adventure is just the kind of small business that could be expected to buy medical insurance for workers under health act rules taking effect in 2014. But Executive Director George Comfort says that's not likely to happen.
The meaning of compassion is to recognize the suffering of others, then take action to help. The meaning of compassion can be expressed in many ways. Author Fredrick Buechner describes the meaning of compassion in these words: Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. 1  It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too..
Understanding The True Meaning of Compassion. In life we are taught to be sympathetic to those in need or the suffering. Sympathy means to share the feelings of another, and in the dictionary it even states having compassion. When you share the feelings of another you are not being compassionate towards them or yourself. There is no need to take on the emotional feeling of another personsâ pain in order to be compassionate towards them or to care how they are feeling. Sympathy is the opposite of the true meaning of compassion. The true meaning of compassion is to have a deep awareness of the suffering of another without the need to relieve it, feeling total appreciation for it's value, all while being in a state of non-judgment. Being compassionate seems to go against what we have been conditioned to believe.