I was wrong about the simple choice.

[Rev. Rye]

It is much simpler than that.

Have compassion for yourself to the extent you begin to fear your everlasting destiny.  When you have enough compassion to have compassion for yourself, it will easily extend to others.

You do realise that for a good number of people (if not the vast majority), it's actually far easier to be compassionate about oneself than for others?

(For information see, well, most politicians, really, but the Republican Party has turned compassion for oneself [or one's preferred ingroups] at the expense at everyone else into an art form.)