Compassion is characterized by warmth. This warmth is not fabricated or generated; it emerges naturally in the absence of aggression. Compassion is not another way of waging war and harming ourselves or others. It relinquishes the false glory of bloodshed and battle in favor of the true glory of nonaggression. It is a practice of inner disarmament. The warmth of compassion is not a defense against hatred; it is a transformation of hatred. Compassion is none other than the energy of aggression and hatred released from the ego's narrow and fearful grasp.
— Aura Glaser, A Call to Compassion