Compassion means sharing my positive emotion with the same positive emotion of another.
Empathy means sharing the same positive thoughts as another.
I feel compassion with another.
I know empathy with another.
Compassion and empathy both share in an expansive way, which makes them positive.
Sympathy and apathy, conversely, are both negative and divisive.
When I resonate in sympathy with another who is emotionally negative, they deplete my emotional energy in a divisive way. I harmonise with them in a negative way.
I am unable to share my emotional energy with another who is negative and apathetic to my state of being.
Compassion has a female gender, which requires an awareness of feeling and emotional intelligence.
Empathy has a male gender, which requires a rational intelligence and an intuitive logic.
Empathy and Compassion are essential attainments that facilitate expansive spiritual growth and the development of both the Self and others.