Wisdom is seeing the different ways we entangle ourselves in things and the different ways we can be free. Virtue, meditation, and wisdom are the tools we use in training ourselves in how to relate to the world around us. This training will help us to see the qualities that bring true benefit to our society the qualities of loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity. These are the Brahma viharas, or divine abodes. Loving-kindness is the wish for another's happiness.
Compassion is the wish to alleviate another's suffering.
Sympathetic joy is the happiness we feel in the success of another. And equanimity,the ability to stay centered in the midst of life' s ups and downs. The quality of sympathetic joy is an interesting one in terms of social action. Its opposite is jealousy or envy. In many ways, envy is the foundation for competition and conflict.