Quotes About Compassion

When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do.

Even as the skillful activity of unbearable compassion unfolds without hindrance, may at the same time the meaning of its empty essence nakedly shine forth. Inseparable from this supreme unerring path of union may we meditate at all times, day and night.

As a beginner, one first has to give rise to compassion focusing on beings as its object. Once one realizes the impermanent nature of beings and phenomena, understanding that all compounded phenomena are impermanent in that they undergo a process of destruction taking place from instant to instant, compassion focusing on the nature arises. Finally, the realization of the emptiness of all phenomena gives rise to compassion free from any focus.

Once one realizes that beings do not truly exist and yet feels compassion for them, this is the most excellent type of compassion.

I believe in divinity. Like the goodness that works through people. The God inside humanity.

All the joy the world contains Has come through wishing happiness for others. All the misery the world contains Has come through wanting pleasure for oneself. (8.129)

May beings everywhere who suffer Torment in their minds and bodies Have, by virtue of my merit, Joy and happiness in boundless measure.

Do not be downcast, but marshal all your powers; Make an effort; be the master of yourself! Practice the equality of self and other; Practice the exchange of self and other.

We should at once cast far away Our mind's attachments: Tinder for the fiery flames of hate.

Thus the state of Buddhahood depends On beings and on Buddhas equally. What kind of practice is it then That honors only Buddhas but not beings?

The work of bringing benefit to beings Will not, then, make me proud and self-admiring. The happiness of others is itself my satisfaction; I do not expect another recompense.

And now as long as space endures, As long as there are beings to be found, May I continue likewise to remain To drive away the sorrows of the world. The pains and sorrows of all wandering beings— May they ripen wholly on myself. And may the virtuous company of Bodhisattvas Always bring about the happiness of beings.

To cover all the earth with sheets of leather Where could such amounts of skin be found? But with the leather soles of just my shoes It is as though I cover all the earth! And thus the outer course of things I myself cannot restrain. But let me just restrain my mind, And what is left to be restrained?

When shall I be able to allay and quench The dreadful heat of suffering's blazing fires With plenteous rains of my own bliss That pour torrential from my clouds of merit?

Sin embargo, aunque trabaje por el beneficio de los demás, debo hacerlo sin orgullo ni pretensiones. Motivado solo por la satisfacción de beneficiarlos, no he de esperar ninguna otra recompensa.

Toda la felicidad de este mundo surge del deseo de que los demás sean felices, mientras que todo el sufrimiento surge de desear nuestra propia felicidad.

If I am happy at the joy of those who take delight, Then everyone should be a source of joy to me. When people take delight in others Why am I not happy at their pleasure? 97. The satisfaction that is mine From thinking, "I am being praised," Is unacceptable to common sense And nothing but the antics of a silly child. 98. Praise and compliments distract me, Sapping my revulsion with sa?s?ra. I start to envy others their good qualities And thus all excellence is ruined.

Those who stay close by me, then, To damage my good name and cut me down to size— Are surely there protecting me From falling into realms of grief.

For I am one who strives for freedom. I must not be caught by wealth and honors. How could I be angry with the ones Who work to free me from my fetters?

So take your pleasure in the excellence of others. Let them be a heartfelt joy to you.

All the good works gathered in a thousand ages, Such as deeds of generosity, And offerings to the Blissful Ones— A single flash of anger shatters them.

Therefore, when the thought of compassion is impure, one should not sacrifice one's life, but it should be sacrificed when one's thought is unbiased. Thus, life must not be wasted.18

El dolor tiene otra virtud y es que al desasosiego que lo acompaña le siguen la caída de la soberbia, la compasión hacia aquellos que vagan arrastrados por la vorágine del renacer.