Compassion without wisdom is sentimentality, and the act of feeling is no act at all. It is solipsistic and masturbatory if pursued, as it so often is, as an end in itself.
And I will add that though I talk about feeling constantly, there is a vast difference between chasing feelings out there, and slowly sinking and inhabiting the rich natural environment you inherited by being born human.
There is a compassion where you give the homeless guy twenty dollars because it makes you feel good, and a compassion where look him in the eye, and smile in commiseration, that we are miserable and doomed, but that you are glad you are alive, and glad he is alive, and glad to see him.
People have ways of surviving. Never interfere with this.