Quotes About Compassion

It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

If you know how to go back to her and listen carefully every day for five or ten minutes, healing will take place.

Shallow understanding accompanies shallow compassion. Great understanding goes with great compassion.

The more you understand , the more you love ; the more you love , the more you understand . They are two sides of one reality . The mind of love and the mind of understanding are the same .

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Understanding is a gift. The other person may feel understood for the first time. Understanding is the other name of love. If you don't understand, you can't love. If you don't understand your son, you can't love him. If you don't understand your mother, you can't love her. To offer understanding means to offer love. Without understanding, the more we love, the more we make ourselves and others suffer.

wake up to the beauties of the planet to heal yourself and wake up to the suffering of the world and try to help.

we are advised to tell the other person that we are angry, that we suffer. "Darling, I suffer, I'm angry, and I want you to know it." Then if you are a good practitioner, you also add, "I'm doing my best to take care of my anger." And you can conclude with the third sentence, "Please, do help me

A successful relationship depends on us recognising our own painful feelings and emotions inside—not fighting them, but accepting, embracing, and transforming them to get relief.

Without compassion, you are utterly alone.

When you touch deep understanding and love, you are healed.

If we can heal our wounded child, we will not only liberate ourselves, but we will also help liberate whoever has hurt or abused us. The abuser may also have been the victimg of abuse.

for the sharing to be useful and good, you have to be prepared to say something like, "I have made mistakes. I have thought, spoken, and acted in ways that have harmed our happiness and damaged our connection.

Love is a living, breathing thing. There is no need to force it to grow in a particular direction. If we start by being easy and gentle with ourselves, we will find it is just there inside of us, solid and healing.

We have to make the effort to heal words by using them properly and carefully.

We need the vision of interbeing—we belong to each other; we cannot cut reality into pieces. The well-being of "this" is the well-being of "that," so we have to do things together. Every side is "our side"; there is no evil side.

It is my prayer that nations will no longer send their young people to fight each other, not even in the name of peace. I do not accept the concept of war for peace, nor of a 'just war,' in the same way that I cannot accept the concepts of 'just slavery,,' 'just hatred, or 'just racism.

In fact, father and mother are two aspects of the same reality. Father is more expressive side of wisdom or understanding, and mother the side of love or compassion...Without understanding there cannot be true love, and without love there cannot be understanding

how can we expand our heart? increasing our understanding and compassion makes our heart grow greater

When we recognize that we have a habit of replaying old events and reacting to new events as if they were the old ones, we can begin to notice when that habit energy comes up. We can then gently remind ourselves that we have another choice. We can look at the moment as it is, a fresh moment, and leave the past for a time when we can look at it compassionately. We

We talk about social service, service to the people, service to humanity, service for others who are far away, helping to bring peace to the world - but often we forget that it is the very people around us that we must live for first of all. [...] Are we working for other humans, or are we just working for the name of an organization?

Our suffering is us, and we need to treat it with kindness and nonviolence.

No act of killing can be justified.

if you know how to suffer, suffering is okay. And the moment you have that attitude, you don't suffer much anymore. And out of suffering, a lotus flower of happiness can open.