He admonishes you so that you may take heed. Mishnah, Abot 1.2 Gentle character it is which enables the rope of life to stay unbroken in one's hand. African Traditional Religions. He who can find no room for others lacks fellow feeling, and to him who lacks fellow feeling, all men are strangers. You need to show compassion to all living beings.
Compassion is the root of all religious faiths.
The bhikkhu who abides in loving-kindness, who is pleased with the Buddha's teaching, attains to that state of peace and happiness, the stilling of conditioned things, Nibbana. Even though it be the home of someone who has managed for long to avoid misfortune, we gods will not enter into the dwelling of a person with perverse disposition. Even though it be a dwelling where a man be in mourning for father and mother, if he be a man of compassion, we deities will enter in there. See Digha Nikaya iii.76-77, p. 211. By loving others, the heart is released from egoism and stands on a truly selfless, universal foundation.