Quotes About Compassion

As a ten-year-old boy I was introduced to two ideas that were guideposts for the journey that was to become my destiny. The first is that people will respond for the benefit of all concerned if you speak to them with confidence and in a nonjudgmental manner. The second guidepost is that there's a secret garden where miracles and magic abound, and it's available to anyone who makes the choice to visit there.

Serve the needs of others, and all your own needs will be fulfilled.

remember to include yourself when dispensing kindness and nonjudgment.

In all of your relationships, if you can love someone enough to allow them to be exactly what they choose to be—without any expectations or attachments from you—you'll know true peace in your lifetime. True love means you love a person for what they are, not for what you think they should be. This is an open mind—and an absence of attachment.

refuse to participate in activities that cause harm to anything on the planet.

Experiences of pain, loss, fear, anger, and even hatred seem to vanish when you remember that this is a part of the perfect blossoming of natural law; and there will soon be a time for comfort, peace, and love.

I promise you that when you adjust rule-based thinking to a heart-based attitude, your life will change!

Don't wait for chaos to erupt before you are generous and kind to others.

All rights and wrongs of every description represent shoulds of one kind or another. And the shoulds get in your way, particularly when they conflict with another person's need to have his own as well.

no one is special or better than anyone else. This sentiment is echoed in the Christian scriptures: "[God] sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous" (Matt. 5:45).

begin the beautiful day doing something kind for another human being someplace on the planet.

if a thought or behavior divides us, it is not of God; if it unites us, it is of God.

When negativity feels like it's directed right at you, retreat to that place of kindness and love within and deflect that energy.

making the world a better place

The sage does not hoard, and thereby bestows. The more he lives for others, the greater his life. The more he gives to others, the greater his abundance.

Jesus, Buddha, William Blake, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Paramahansa Yogananda, and Mother Teresa.

When you have the choice to be right, or kind, choose kind.

return to the basics of a peaceful existence by choosing to live simply and placing less effort on needing to conquer anyone.

be someone who makes an enlightening difference in the lives of others.

Be a giver of forgiveness

Every day I see Jesus Christ in all of his distressing disguises.

when you adjust rule-based thinking to a heart-based attitude, your life will change!

recognize in the heat of battle that the battle itself is something to grieve about.

When you refrain from engaging in judgments based solely on looks, you paradoxically become an instrument for change.