Quotes About Compassion

As painful as it is to receive contempt from another, it is more debilitating by far to be filled with contempt for another.

People whose hearts are at war toward others can't consider others' objections and challenges enough to be able to find a way through them.

the way we can know if we've betrayed ourselves is by whether we are still desiring to be helpful.

In the way we regard our children, our spouses, neighbors, colleagues, and strangers, we choose to see others either as people like ourselves or as objects.They either count like we do or they don't. In the former case we regard them as we regard ourselves, we say our hearts are at peace toward them. In the latter case, since we systematically view them as inferior, we say our hearts are at war.

A person is a person through other persons; you can't be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships.

Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?

PEACE is generosity. It is right and it is duty.

You wanted justice ,didn't you?There isn't any...there is only love." - J.B's wife

You wanted justice and there was none- only love.

The more grievous the world, the more we need to remember the luminous beauty at the center of life.

You cannot define a person on just one thing. You can't just forget all these wonderful and good things that a person has done because one thing didn't come off the way you thought it should come off.

Adelia, you must not quail. You are confounding inhumanity.

It matters, it matters very much, what each of us chooses to do. The journey toward self-discovery and self-knowledge is not only life's highest adventure, but also the only way to transform society from one based on self-centeredness and compulsory compassion to one based on service and mutual responsibility.

When we are all mind, things can get rigid. When we are all heart, things can get chaotic. Both lead to stress. But when they work together, the heart leading through empathy, the mind guiding us with focus and attention, we become a harmonious human being.

When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly.112 They are like this because they can't tell good from evil. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own—not of the same blood or birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine. And so none of them can hurt me.

really true that while we grow physically by what we get, we grow spiritually by what we give. Ever since I became a mother, I've

To really find God is to search for him not only in ourselves, not only in our loved ones, not only in our neighbors, not only in the strangers that we encounter, but ultimately in our enemies as well.

To live the lives we truly want and deserve, and not just the lives we settle for, we need a Third Metric, a third measure of success that goes beyond the two metrics of money and power, and consists of four pillars: well-being, wisdom, wonder, and giving.

It is the Fourth Instinct (the spirit - RJ) that urges us to exceed ourselves ... by awakening our intuitive selves, and striving to be all that we were intended to be. It takes us beyond self-centeredness and enables us to resist the combined forces of indifference and meaninglessness. It awakens us to a sense of responsibility for those most in need of our society as well as for that world that future generations will inherit.

Those who have matured spiritually, now put service to others at the center of their quest and of their lives.

El sistema está roto», o «el gobierno está demasiado polarizado como para someterlo a una reforma severa». Sí, hay muchas cosas que los gobiernos deben hacer, pero no podemos delegar nuestra compasión a nuestro gobierno y sentarnos a un lado quejándonos del hecho de que no hace lo suficiente. Desde

The poet Mark Nepo defines sacrifice as "giving up with reverence and compassion what no longer works in order to stay close to what is sacred." So recognizing when habits are no longer working for us and sacrificing them is a cornerstone of wisdom.

expressing gratitude for even the smallest kindnesses shown to me;

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.