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“Compassion, however, should mean providing a mechanism to escape poverty rather than simply maintaining people in an impoverished state by supplying handouts. By doing this we give them an opportun...”
“The poor young man must work for his bread; he eats; when he has eaten, he has nothing left but reverie. He enters God's theater free; he sees the sky, space, the stars, the flowers, the children, ...”
“We are nourished by our relationships and generosity in return to our kindness and compassion for others.”
“Then, as now, there would always be people who preferred the option of devoting their religious energies to sacred space over the more difficult duty of compassion.”
“You can unlock spiritual things only from within.”
“Compassion is not prevention of all negative certainty, it is a home floating on the sea of fear, that equally brings assistance to those sinking.”
“Everyone is always doing as well as they can within their personal limitations, their personal history, what they know and don't know and what they're feeling in that moment. If they could make a h...”
“The opacity of the mind, its inability to project itself into the realm of another's personality, goes a long way to explain the friction of life. If we would set down other people's errors to this...”
“Inherent in all persons does be,Love and compassion unfailingly.Give to others your love freely,And receive in turn love purely.[112] - 4”
“2.27 THE ULTIMATEWith compassion and renunciation walking,With wants and desires ever shedding,With love within ones heart flowing,Peace and Divinity shall never be wanting.[158] - 2”
“No one can hurt you without teaching a life's lesson. So accept it with love and kindness.”
“People who dont know how to use their minds cant really know how to use their hearts either.”
“There is no such thing as tough love. Love is kind, love is compassionate, love is tender.”
“And Sir, it is no little thing to make mine eyes to sweat compassion.”
“Why, we are just the same - I am only a little girl like you. It's just an accident that I am not you, and you are not me!”
“By serving humanity, I automatically serve myself.”
“The judge speaks in the name of justice,' he said. 'The priest speaks in the name of pity, which is only a higher form of justice.' (Bishop Myriel)”
“Exercise the muscles that compassionately open the heart.In your writing and your life.”
“A joke is never a joke if it is at the expense of another person's feelings”
“And as I thought about the body of Ray Brower in this light- or lack of it- what I felt was not queasiness or fear that he would suddenly appear before us, a green and gibbering banshee whose purpo...”
