Why do enlightened people (Jesus & Buddha for example) are almost always thought to have endless compassion for the rest of humanity?

Buddha is said to have refused to enter Nirvana cuz he wanted to go back to the world and teach other humans about how to alleviate suffering.

Maybe there are among us more enlightened people than we think, but they just don't have enough compassion to care about teaching other humans.

بانَ الخَليطُ وَلَو طُوِّعتُ ما بانا
وَقَطَّعوا مِن حِبالِ الوَصلِ أَقرانا

حَيِّ المَنازِلَ إِذ لا نَبتَغي بَدَلًا
بِالدارِ دارًا وَلا الجيرانِ جيرانا

لَو تَعلَمينَ الَّذي نَلقى أَوَيتِ لَنا
أَو تَسمَعينَ إِلى ذي العَرشِ شَكوانا

كَصاحِبِ المَوجِ إِذ مالَت سَفينَتُهُ
يَدعو إِلى اللَهِ إِسرارًا وَإِعلانا

- جرير

الله يحفظني الكم على كل هالأغاني الحلوة

لا صدك احتاج دعاء، باجر عندي باثو

Let pity overwhelm you for this creature who one morning detached himself from the ape, naked, defenseless, without teeth or horns, with only a spark of fire in his soft skull.

- Saviors of God

Music is the soul’s primitive and primary speech and it is without articulate speech or reason. It is not only not reasonable, it is hostile to reason. Even when articulate speech is added, it is utterly subordinate to and determined by the music and the passions it expresses.

- Allan Bloom

إنّ الموسيقى هي اللغة الأولى والبدائية للروح، وهي بلا كلام أو منطق. فهي ليست فقط غير منطقية، بل هي مُعادية للمنطق. حتى عندما تُضاف الكلمات للموسيقى—كما في الأغاني—فإنها تكون خاضعةً لها تمامًا ومحددةً من قِبلها ومن قِبل المشاعر التي تعبر عنها الموسيقى.

- آلان بلوم

Country, religion, family, ideas of civilization, all the sentimental and historical forces that stood between cosmic infinity and the individual, providing some notion of a place within the whole, have been rationalized and have lost their compelling force.

- Allan Bloom

The honesty of this generation of students causes them to laugh when asked to act as though they were powerful agents in world history.

- Allan Bloom

صراحةُ هذا الجيل من الطلاب تجعلُهم يضحكون حين يُطالبون بالتصرّف كما لو كانوا أفرادًا مؤثِّرين في تاريخ العالم.

[The younger generation has] a greater indifference to the past and a loss of a national view of the future. The only common project engaging the youthful imagination is the exploration of space, which everyone knows to be empty.

- Allan Bloom

No wonder that the one novel that remains continuously popular with students is Camus’s The Stranger.

- Allan Bloom

I just remembered my friends who love Camus,
Allan Bloom says hi 😂