Just like we might not want to injure our own bodies because they are part of us, if we are one with the birds and the earth, the rain and the cars, we might not want to injure them, either. We call this closer connection compassion. Why then, do so many compassionate people believe they must suffer when someone they are connected with suffers. The word passion in Websters New World Dictionary means any emotion as hate, love, fear etc. The word compassion means deep sympathy, pity.
Pity means sorrow for anothers suffering or misfortune.
Language tells us a lot about a culture. Me means with or like and ne means returning persistently as a thought or desire. So the persistent thought to be with or like another. Me'e means hero, ene means a baby's first attempt to move, ne'e means to move forward, persist. So we have implications of moving toward the heroic or admired.