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“In the present moment we can always realize that the ground is to develop loving-kindness toward ourselves. As adults, we can begin to cultivate a sense of loving-kindness for ourselvesby ourselves...”
“We find it difficult to distinguish between spiritual combatants and their hostages.”
“Venice was a contrast from Los Angeles itself, where you might see a woman with $15,000 tits, a face frozen in place by Botox, wobbling with her $4,000 Gucci bag right past a child with a sunken be...”
“When your goal is not fame or notoriety, you can simply show up, offer compassion to people, and let God do His work.”
“Compassion is born from understanding suffering. We all should learn to embrace our own suffering, to listen to it deeply, and to have a deep look into its nature.”
“Be a vessel of love and fill up with compassion and kindness. Then give it away with unconditional love.”
“Where there is darkness, let me be the light. Where there is suffering, let me be kind and compassionate.”
“The most compassionate thing I can do for them is continuing to see their potential. They need to know that people are not going to abandon them because of their bad behavior. Only in the security ...”
“If developing ties to this world and exercising love and compassion are not the very point of us -- I cannot presume to know -- then we are at least better occupied in this way, I feel, than with t...”
“All we have is compassion and stories.”
“In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice. He may be only small injustice that the ch...”
“The people are suffering. Relieving peoples poverty ought to be handled as though one were rescuing them from fire, or saving them from drowning. One cannot hesitate.”
“It is not rubbish! It is the part of people that you do not understand.”
“I realized I could only play-act at the spiritual life as long as my appetites were stronger than my empathy.”
“Morality without kindness and compassion is very dangerous.”
“She grew more and more vexed with his dignified behavior. By a cruel irony, she was drawing out what was best in his disposition.”
“Your outer world mirrors your inner world. How you view your outer world is how you view you, your inner world, the 'you' that needs your care, your attention, your compassion and your love.”
“No one can read the books of Moses with any care without understanding that law can be a means of grace. Certainly this law is of one spirit with the Son of Man who says, "I was hungry and you fed ...”
“You don't think any job's a job unless it's your job.”
“Where was his empathy? Buried, I supposed, beneath his self-regard.”
