Quotes About Compassion

Men often do their best work blind, for some one else's sake.

I always try to believe the best of everybody -it saves so much trouble.

O ye who tread the Narrow Way By Tophet-flare to judgment Day, Be gentle when 'the heathen' pray To Buddha at Kamakura!

There is no pride,' said the lama, after a pause, 'there is no pride among such as follow the Middle Way.

One of the things that has to be learned is that even sorrow cannot be had in peace, because other people have sorrows too.

It's queer, she thought, when you're kind to people you can forget them but when you're not, you can't.

And we pray in reparation, to make up for all those who won't or can't pray for themselves – especially anyone in grave sin. That's why communities say the longest and most arduous Office at night – the time when most sin is committed in the world.' 'You mean a little Carmelite might sit up and pray for a murderer?' 'She has, with results,' said Philippa.

Perhaps it was the pulling up of her stakes, or claims, to her private loves, renouncing them, that had made room for these people in a kind of universal love, without any claims.

It's. Not old-fashioned to say God is good. Remember, not one sparrow can fall to the ground—" "But they fall all the time," said Olivia. "We knock them down. We knock them, crush them—carelessly or carefully, it doesn't matter which, and they fall. That's what humans do to humans, so don't talk to me about God.

Every person needs to be needed, but being needed takes away from thoughts of yourself. This may sound selfish to your ears, but I do not think it is so. I know I am unable to be needed like others are. I know that my inner world would be jealous.

Fools. Do they pity Kanna? But Kanna cannot feel a thing, be it pain, fear or sorrow. She cannot even understand the reason for your pity.- Naraku

I too am subject to ageing, sickness, and death, not beyond ageing, sickness, and death, and that I should see another who is old, sick or dead and be shocked, disturbed, and disgusted —this is not fitting.' As I reflected thus, the conceit of youth, health, and life entirely left me.21

If we feel and learn nothing from the tragedies of the past, then we'll never know how to truly help avoid those same tragedies in the future. Certainly, we can't avoid all pain and suffering, but we can and should learn from it.

Listen, identify withe the victims and you become one yourself. Victims make lousy litigators.

Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." —ALBERT EINSTEIN Considering

Humility has everything to do with love.

American GIs gave the morphine syringe each front-line soldier carried to the doctors and medics to alleviate the suffering of the half-dead concentration-camp victims.

How much easier the task will be to review your past life, if you live each day as if that was the sole recording of your entire lifetime. Keep that page so neat and tidy, so filled with loving care, that if your life ended at midnight the page would be spotless and blameless, for surely even the worst of us can live one day in nearly blameless harmony with all about us.

He hated the idea of killing people he could not hate.

One of her vows was to save all beings, which basically means that she agreed not to become enlightened until all the other beings in this world get enlightened first.

Now that I think of it, maybe she loves him because all his problems give her so much to pray about, and when you're as old as she is , and your body is like enough already, you need some pretty powerful reasons to stay alive.

In Zen we have a story. If your left hand gets a painful splinter, what does your right hand do? Does your right hand say, "Oh, that's too bad, but it's not my problem"? No, of course not. The right hand pulls the splinter out. This is interconnectedness.

I don't hate anybody.

saddened. Cheered at the thought of the many instants that arise and are available to do good in the world. Saddened by all the misspent moments that have piled on top of each other and led us to this war.