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“Mindfulness helps us to live in harmony with our thoughts, words and actions.”
“A compassionate kind can see the animal as a living being, as a friend, as a family, as soul,as an expression of life. Be compassionate.”
“You must not hate those who do harmful things. The compassionate thing is to do what you can to stop them--for they are harming themselves as well as those who suffer from their actions.”
“The first step toward feeling compassion for others is to set the intention to try it out.”
“I always understood the idea of the ultimate redeemer, Christ on the cross. But now I was beginning to see that this is something that is carried out in every one of us, that the purity of unearned...”
“Changing the way LGBTQ individualswith chronic or life-limiting illnesses are cared for requires a paradigm shift in the way we (collectively, as health care professionals) approach the conversatio...”
“Empathy is a hand thick with scars offering you a bandage.”
“Self-compassion is like a muscle. The more we practice flexing it, especially when life doesnt go exactly according to plan (a frequent scenario for most of us), the stronger and more resilient our...”
“I found out too that you are bound to be jostled in "the crowded street of life." That in itself need not be dangerous unless you have the open razors of personal vanity in your pants pocket. The p...”
“Compassion has been advocated by all the great faiths because it has been found to be the safest and surest means of attaining enlightenment.”
“I beg you, alight and join your sorrow with mine: misfortune wanders everywhere, and settles now upon one and now upon another.”
“Boundless compassion for all living beings is the surest and most certain guarantee of pure moral conduct, and needs no casuistry. Whoever is filled with it will assuredly injure no one, do harm to...”
“As people used to say, What the heart loves is the cure. The cure for healing the wounds and conflicts between faiths and systems of belief involves awakening to the unique ways that each heart car...”
“The rich never have a chance of being neighborly to their equals. The best they can do is feel mawkish about the sufferings of their inferiors, which they can never begin to understand, and to be p...”
“Honesty and kindness can do much more for the world than anything else. And logic will always be weak without a strong heart. That is why the wisest tend to suffer the most from heartbreak. One can...”
“I appreciate anyone that tries to make this world a better place.”
“It probably takes many years of monastic practice to equal the spiritual growth generated by one sleepless night with a sick child.”
“He taught me that it's okay to be a star, but to never forget that there are millions of other stars out there waiting for someone to recognize them for what they are - to treat people as if they t...”
“Without compassion for a fellow man, for great splendors of our Sister, Mother Earth the humankind will never reconcile with itself.”
“The term compassion means shared suffering. You develop compassion by knowing what it is like to suffer.”
