Quotes About Compassion

May I be, this day, an instrument of love and healing.

Whether we choose to focus on the guilt in their personality, or the innocence in their soul, is up to us.

But peace isn't determined by circumstances outside us. Peace stems from forgiveness. Pain doesn't stem from the love we're denied by others, but rather from the love that we deny them.

We were taught that things like grades, being good enough, money, and doing things the right way, are more important than love.

When we're willing to see the innocence in another person even when he or she has behaved without love toward us, we activate the Law of Divine Compensation.

It is an act of gracious generosity to accept a person based on what we know to be the truth about them, regardless of whether or not they are in touch with that truth themselves.

If they treat us with fear, we are to see their behavior as a call for love.

But remember, there's only one of us here: What we give to others, we give to ourselves.

There's no single effort more radical in it's potential for saving the world than a transformation of the way we raise our children.

It's easy to forgive people who have never done anything to make us angry. People who do make us angry, however, are our most important teachers. They indicate the limits to our capacity for forgiveness.

A belief in separation is always at the root of a problem, and a realization of our oneness is always at the root of its solution.

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.

Course in Miracles says that everyone we meet will either be our crucifier or our savior, depending on what we choose to be to them. Focusing on their guilt drives the nails of self-loathing more deeply into our own skin. Focusing on their innocence sets us free. Since 'no thoughts are neutral,' every relationship takes us deeper into Heaven or deeper into Hell.

Making another person feel guilty will never build unity or goodwill; only blessing, not blaming, can do that. All judgment does is to shut people down emotionally and psychologically.

The purpose of life as a woman is to ascend to the throne and rule with heart.

Hatred is the spiritual malignancy of our species

Love does not conquer all things, but it does set all things right.

I surrender myself, that I might be used in bringing the end of suffering to all

And the more open your heart, the more miracles you'll receive. For miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. When you choose to love, you choose to work miracles.

everyone we meet will either be our crucifier or our savior, depending on what we choose to be to them.

Similarly, if we want to be rid of fear, we cannot fight it but must replace it with love.

What we give to others, we give to ourselves. What we withhold from others, we withhold from ourselves. In any moment when we choose fear instead of love, we deny ourselves the experience of Paradise.

We heal through noticing, and prayer.

More women cry, loudly or silently, every fraction of every moment, in every town of every country, than anyone - man or woman - realizes. We cry for our children, our lovers, our parents, and ourselves. We cry in shame because we feel no right to cry, and we cry in peace because we feel it's time we did cry. We cry in moans and we cry in great yelps. We cry for the world. Yet we think we cry alone.