Quotes About Compassion

For those ignorant of Raja Yoga, wandering in the darkness of too many opinions, compassionate Svatmarama gives the light of Hatha.

Whether you like it or not, everything is to make you stronger and wiser. And the sooner you see it as such – i.e. the sooner you stop running from your pain and start asking the pain and the gods in what ways this hardship is the greatest blessing of your life – the sooner you become a more powerful and more compassionate agent of God's love in the world.

My mom says . . . there are bad people who hurt others for fun . . . and there are good people who do it by accident. Like, they make a mistake? I think you're a good person.

Strength is a resource. If you have a lot and someone doesn't, you gotta share yours.

He studied with the guru of rock n' roll, Baba Oom Mow Mow, who taught his own version of the Golden Rule: "Do wop unto others as you would have them do wop unto you.

Let your heart be as big as it can possibly be.

The more the evil in a man, the less he will respond to sincere and pure love.

Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. This is the direct way to Moksha or salvation.

Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.

Give up the idea that by ruling over others you can do any good to them. But you can do just as much as you can in the case of the plant: you can supply the growing seed with the materials for the making up of its body, bringing to it the earth, the water, the air, that it wants. It will take all that it wants by its own nature, it will assimilate and grow by its own nature.

So long as the millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every person a traitor who, having been educated at their expense, pays not the least heed to them!

Blessed are they whose bodies get destroyed in the service of others.

Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple.

Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego.

Do good because it is good to do good. Ask no more.

If in this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true; this I have learnt after suffering all my life; all else is mere moonshine. . . .

The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.

The Tapas and the other hard Yogas that were practiced in other Yugas do not work now. What is needed in this Yuga is giving, helping others.

The knowing ones must have pity on the ignorant. One who knows is willing to give up his body even for an ant, because he knows that the body is nothing.

Be Grateful to the Man you help, think of Him as God. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship God by helping our fellow men?

Have Faith in Man, whether he appears to you to be a very learned one or a most ignorant one.

Serve man Serve god

The more we grow in Love, Virtue and Holiness, the more we see Love, Virtue and Holiness outside.

God is present in every Jiva; there is no other God besides that. Who serves Jiva serves God indeed.