Compassion is the steady gentle warmth that between our opposites and extremes constantly creates a transformation out of their friction. It creates all our psychic vessels as from an inner maternal feeling all around us. Compassion is also what allows us to relate to it in everything around us and nurture them as they arise there. That is what the primordial being of the Sami Máttaráhkká means to us as a cultural interpersonal sense of a genuine community. She creates belonging everywhere, between all the vessels she creates. When her gentle flame fades or ceases, we end up in Jáhbmeaimo’s unborn non-world of possibilities, of transformation and maybe’s, without any genuine participation in life itself. That is the other side, or what the dark absence of compassion means to the human being within us. It is about being able to apply the original meaning she has for us in the psychic space from which she operates in our lives. Self-compassion means we are attending some vessel created for us, not that we are rejecting other’s. Or being rejected by them. Vessels is her gift to us. Hostility on the other hand, comes from when we do not acknowledge Her, and its presence and defend ourselves from our participation in it and what it wants to show us.