Quotes About Compassion

Cuando somos impacientes, provocamos sufrimiento en nosotros mismos y en los demás. Nos precipitamos y juzgamos con imprudencia, actuamos sin tener en consideración las consecuencias de lo que hacemos. Nuestras elecciones son forzadas y, a menudo, incorrectas; y el precio que pagamos por ellas, elevado.

When you want to comfort someone don't listen to their words; the words may be misleading or wrong…go straight to their heart, straight to their hurt. Their words may be pushing you away, but they still need comforting.

Whenever we kill another person, we also kill a part of ourselves. To be violent, to hate, and to kill are wrong. We fail the lesson; we have to repeat the course. At a deeper level, we can never really be killed because we are consciousness, we are soul. But in this physical dimension we can die corporeally, and we must stop the violence. It is time to act like the spiritual beings that we truly are. .

Are you a kind person here on earth, getting joy from your existence, causing no harm, and doing good to others?

Cada persona debe ocuparse de sí misma... de hacerse... íntegra. Tenemos lecciones que aprender... cada uno de nosotros. Deben ser aprendidas una a una... en orden. Sólo entonces podemos saber qué necesita la persona de al lado, qué le falta o qué nos falta a nosotros para ser íntegros.

Each person must be concerned with him- or herself … with making him- or herself … whole. We have lessons to learn … each one of us. They must be learned one at a time … in order. Only then can we know what the next person needs, what he or she lacks or what we lack, to make us whole." She spoke in a soft whisper, and her whisper conveyed a feeling of loving detachment.

estamos aquí en la Tierra para aprender lecciones de amor y compasión—

For example, we may have already mastered the course in compassion and charity, but we may only be beginners when it comes to patience or forgiveness. We may be graduate students in faith and hope, but kindergartners in anger or non-violence.

Become more spiritual. Spend more time praying, giving, helping others, loving. Volunteer and express generosity and love. Get rid of pride, ego, selfishness, anger, guilt, vanity, and ambition. Spend less time accumulating things, worrying, being in the past or the future, hurting others, and being violent in any way.

Cuando miraba a mis hijos y a mi esposa, me preguntaba si habíamos estado juntos anteriormente. ¿Acaso habíamos elegido compartir las pruebas, las tragedias y las alegrías de esta vida? ¿Carecíamos de edad? Sentía hacia ellos un gran amor, una gran ternura. Comprendí que sus defectos eran cosas sin importancia. En realidad, no tienen tanta importancia. El amor sí.

Caridad, esperanza, fe, amor, todos debemos conocer estas cosas, y conocerlas bien. No solo un esperanza, una fe, un amor, muchas cosas se alimentan de cada una de ellas. Hay muchas maneras de demostrarlas

Todo es amor... todo es amor. Con el amor llega la comprensión. Con la comprensión llega la paciencia. Y entonces el tiempo se detiene. Y todo es ahora.» Comprendí al instante la autenticidad de estos pensamientos. La realidad es el presente. Morar en el pasado o en el futuro es insano y doloroso. La paciencia detiene el tiempo. El amor de Dios lo es todo.

must be the most wonderful gift to be able to throw your arms around someone and just weep,' he wrote.

I had a feeling of easing his burden with my strength')

Robin's experience is his love for his fellow man. He was in the fortunate position of having plenty of money, yet it wasn't just money that he was willing to give away; he gave something far more important – his time and energy. There is little doubt that, were he still alive, he would be planning more ways to help those in need. Whether rich or poor, we can all do more than we do to help others.

A man can't understand how a woman feels—how she can offer up her entire life to him. The man thinks she's bringing him a burden. He doesn't understand that she's trying to give him a gift.

And the trick to making anyone happy, and making yourself happy in the bargain, is to bring them not only what they ask for, but to bring them extras.

he didn't believe your worth was based on your attainments or your erudition or even your intelligence. Just about the only thing he valued was simple decency.

When we ignore those in need and are complicit in others' imprisonment, we cut ourselves off from our shared humanity. You may not notice it at first—or ever—but you are cut off from the source of life. The divine is found in each and every person. Each and every person! We must all be connected to each other in order to be connected to the source of life.

Worship is accessible bathrooms. Worship is inclusive language. Worship is protest marches. Worship is food banks. Worship is letter-writing campaigns. Worship is hard conversations with friends, family, and neighbors. Worship is prison abolition.

I reach into you to reach all mankind, And the deeper into you I reach The deeper glows elsewhere the world And sings of you. It says, To love is the one common miracle.

Freedom means that we become so completely free of self-indulgence that we become servants of one another, expressing love in all we do.

The Golden Rule 12"In everything you do, be careful to treat others in the same way you'd want them to treat you, for that is the essence of all the teachings of the Law and the Prophets." The Narrow Gate 13"Come to God through the narrow gate, because the wide gate and broad path is the way that leads to destruction—nearly everyone chooses that crowded road! 14The narrow gate and the difficult way leads to eternal life—so few even find it!

But rather, his "delay" simply reveals his loving patience toward you, because he does not want any to perish but all to come to repentance.k