The moment of compassion any one of us feels is as pure, as deep, as direct [as a moment of compassion by the Dalai Lama]; but what happens is that we get lost more often. We get distracted, we forget, we get caught up in something else. But we don’t necessarily have to make our compassion “real” or more genuine or better than it actually is. It is fine the way it is; it is just rather rare…We’re not reaching for something in the practice that’s not there already; we’re remembering more and more. That’s the power of actually doing the compassion practices—it reminds us more frequently and strengthens that intention in the mind. The Nature of Compassion
~ Sharon Salzberg