Cry of Love
The features of radical compassion include spontaneity and judgment that seem to appear almost self-evidently, without any deliberation. The manifestation is the extreme and concrete realization of a call, or summons a person hears when he feels the pain of another. The call represents the cry of the reality, the context of the distress and the inclination to change that reality.
Radical compassion takes a unique stance, not founded on judgment and categorizing the other, but rather his situation. Not focusing on a causal analysis, but a purposeful stance on a future where the distress disappears, independent of its cause.
Radical compassion is the refusal to come to terms with a given state of affairs regarding the other, translated into intentional action to change that reality.
On a spontaneous level the imperative appears as an impulse.
K. Lampert- Traditions of Compassion
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