Quotes About Compassion

Basta imaginar lo que sería el mundo si nos viéramos unos a otros y pensáramos, "¡Sé que hay algo maravilloso ahí dentro!

The world softens when we soften

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Today I seek to love those whom I do not like.

It is not the love given to me by others, but only the love that I myself provide, that will save me today from suffering. I call to mind any person from whom I have been withholding love or forgiveness, or situation from which I have been withholding faith in miracles, and surrender such thoughts for healing.

We cannot save the world without God's help, but He can't save the world without ours. We need His love; He needs our hands and feet. Today I give Him mine.

We need a revolution of the heart.

anger instead of love, is our wall. Any situation that pushes our buttons is a situation where we don't yet have the capacity to be unconditionally loving.

Cuando cambiemos nuestro concepto de Dios, de un Dios iracundo a un Dios misericordioso, nos daremos cuenta de que Dios es un médico divino.

Archaeological evidence now argues for the existence of a twenty-thousand-year period of history when men and women lived as equals, with neither sex dominating the other. The earth flourished. The so-called feminine qualities of compassion, nurturing, and nonviolence were shared by men and women alike and were the most vital elements of social structure. Women were revered as priestesses and healers.

We experience it as kindness, giving, mercy, compassion, peace, joy, acceptance, non-judgment, joining, and intimacy.

I resist all temptation today to judge how I think others should behave. I cannot know the deeper forces at work within anyone's heart. My deliverance comes from accepting all people, not judging or controlling them.

May I have the strength to forgive those who've betrayed me.

World conditions challenge us to look beyond the status quo for responses to the pain of our times. We look to powers within as well as to powers without. A new, spiritually based social activism is beginning to assert itself. It stems not from hating what is wrong and trying to fight it, but from loving what could be and making the commitment to bring it forth.

When we do not recognize our cosmic function, our own hearts break, and does the heart of the world.

We're all here to be available channels for the love that heals all things. A job takes a form, but our ministry is content. Even

That is why a new American revolution is a revolution of consciousness, and a new American politics is a politics of love.

May my mind not wander into dark terrain today, but may I remain within the field of light. May I not be tempted to attack my brother, or attack myself. May I cleave instead to love.

The only thing lacking in any situation is our own awareness of love.

Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you could have been positive? When did you withhold love when you might have given it? When did you play a neurotic game instead of behaving in a powerful way? Use this process to self-correct.

We are poor because we do not work with love.

Give all your gifts away in service to the world.  If you want to paint, don't wait for a grant, paint a wall in your town that looks drab and uninviting.  You never know who is going to see that wall. Whatever it is you want to do, give it away in service to your community.

What I think about anyone else I'm thinking about myself.

Until we have forgiven someone's darkness, we don't really know what love is.