Quotes About Compassion

This is the nature of war: it turns us into enemies. People who have never met kill each other out of fear. War creates so much suffering—children become orphans, entire cities and villages are destroyed. All who suffer in such conflicts are victims.

Buda llamó al sufrimiento la Santa Verdad, porque nuestro sufrimiento tiene la capacidad de mostrarnos la senda de la liberación.

understanding, love, compassion, and insight are not abstract ideas, but energies which can be generated in real-life situations, no matter how difficult they may be.

Abraza tu sufrimiento y deja que te revele el camino hacia la paz.

If you are fortunate enough to be more successful on the path of practice than your brother or sister in the Dharma, find skillful and humble ways to help that person.

Right Mindfulness accepts everything without judging or reacting. It is inclusive and loving.

If you do not give right attention to the one you love, it is a kind of killing.

With understanding and compassion, you will be able to heal the wounds in your heart, and the wounds in the world.

This is the great insight of the Mahayana—that everyone can become a Buddha. What Siddhartha achieved, all of us can also achieve, whether we are a man or a woman, no matter what social class or ethnic group we were born into, or whether we practice as a monastic or as a layperson. We all have the capacity to become a fully enlightened Buddha. And while on the path to becoming a fully enlightened Buddha, we are all bodhisattvas.

True love doesn't contain suffering or attachment. It brings well-being to ourselves and others.

The problem is not one of being wrong or right, but one of being more or less skillful.

The Buddha recommends we live our daily life in this way, seeing everything in the light of interbeing. Then we will not be caught in our small self.

The most precious gift you can give someone to the one you love is your true presence

Some people think that to end suffering, you have to stop everything — body, feelings, perceptions, mental formations and consciousness — but that is not correct

There are things we can do. It is very important to come home to ourselves and look deeply to see what we can do every day to help the situation. Taking action helps us not to drown in despair.

Brushing my teeth and rinsing my mouth, I vow to use truthful and loving speech. When my mouth is fragrant with right speech, a flower blooms in the garden of my heart.

If we do not have peace and joy at this moment, we can at least remember some peace and joy we experienced in the past or observe the peace and joy of others. We see that well-being is possible.

The first part of looking at our fear is just inviting it into our awareness without judgment.

You have to be clear-minded. In the context of war, we grew deeper in our practice of nonviolence. Nonviolence is not a set of techniques that you can learn with your intellect. Nonviolent action naturally arises from the compassion, lucidity, and understanding you have within.

The energy of mindfulness has the element of friendship and loving kindness in it.

Knowing how to suffer well is essential to realizing true happiness.

Nonfear is the basis of true happiness, and if you can offer nonfear to someone, you are giving that person the best kind of gift.

If you and your partner both have a deep aspiration, then not only will you support each other's happiness, you will bring more happiness to the world in ways that you, by yourself, cannot.

Happiness is a function of compassion. If you do not have compassion in your heart, you do not have any happiness. The