Compassion is the next step from experiencing empathy. Empathy allows you to acknowledge the feelings of another being, but compassion bridges that feeling to the understanding and a potential for action. Compassion is feeling what that living being is feeling, grasping a hold of it, accepting it, and then taking action . We can't be perfect in avoiding harm to all other living beings. We can cause some amount of harm to beings simply in our being alive. We can limit the har