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“Understanding that you cant truly take credit for your successes, nor truly blame others for their failures will humble you and make you more compassionate.Empathy is intuitive, but is also somethi...”
“Culture now spreads at central nervous system speed. Its a shame that compassion doesnt.”
“The problem, unstated until now, is how to live in a damaged body in a world where pain is meant to be gagged uncured ungrieved over. The problem is to connect, without hysteria, the pain of anyone...”
“All pursuits are pointless and fruitless unless and until love and compassion are found and then are the foundation and destination of all you do”
“We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.”
“When the range and depth of the suffering of others and what we do to one another no longer bothers us, nor moves us to remedy the situation and stop the pain, then we have lost a part of our own h...”
“Not everyone wants to take up meditation, but most people can feel an alignment with values like mutual respect, insightful investigation, listening to one another.Meditation is a way to help those...”
“Some very hungry people gathered to discuss how to distribute a small amount of food. It was understood that each church was supposed to take care of its own. The local Episcopal rector said, "My c...”
“Many times one is forced to descend to deep, dark regions, in order to find there the greatest, noblest and freest light.”
“The essence of a mature human being in religious terms is the ability to see, to be aware of others' suffering and to be touched by it.”
“Contemplating this suffering which is unbearable to us, and is unbearable to others, too, can produce awake mind, which arises from the compassion that wishes to free all living beings from suffering.”
“There are two choices: to be human, made in the image of God, with Jesus; warp to be in human, consumed with greed and on aware of the pain that is inflicted upon others. Put in simple options, it ...”
“The heart of a Christian, who believes and feels, cannot pass the hardships and deprivations of the poor without helping them.”
“Keep God within His and anothers' arm's reach.”
“She considered compassion the highest virtue, but that night on Obstetric Ward B, it had had a twin sister whose face was invisible to Carla. The suffering women, however, had recognized it immedia...”
“Meditation is not about what's happening, it is about how we're relating to what's happening.”
“To die to our neighbors means to stop judging them, to stop evaluating them, and thus to become free to be compassionate. Compassion can never coexist with judgment because judgment creates the dis...”
“Compassion is often mistaken for weakness, when the fact is, there is very little that is more powerful than the courage it takes to give it.”
“How does one develop compassion for someone with a completely different set of values without reading something from their point of view? Books are one of the ways in which we can truly get into th...”
“Kindness wields a sword of light against the darkness.”
