The Self, having in dreams enjoyed the pleasures of sense, gone hither and thither, experienced good and evil, hastens back to the state of waking from which he started. As a man passes from dream to wakefulness, so does he pass from this life to the next.
If you are a compassionate person and you are radiating compassion, then others are bound to receive those radiations of compassion from you.
I am a human and I will only live a life which does credit to humans. I have been blessed with beautiful human form, a sharp intellect and a sensitive heart. How do I activate these gifts? Blessed with a priceless life, why should I not fit it with compassion for all beings?
When you go beyond awareness, there is a state of non-duality, in which there is no cognition, only pure being. All separation ceases.