Because in compassion, when we feel with the other, we dethrone ourselves from the center of our world and we put another person there.

People have found that when they have implemented the Golden Rule as Confucius said, all day and every day, not just a question of doing your good deed for the day and then returning to a life of greed and egotism, but to do it all day and every day, you dethrone yourself from the center of your world, put another there, and you transcend yourself.