Quotes About Compassion

Tonglen practice has to do with cultivating fearlessness. When you do this practice for some time, you experience your heart as more open.

The innocent mistake that keeps us caught in our own particular style of ignorance, unkindness, and shut-downness is that we are never encouraged to see clearly what is, with gentleness.

When you do tonglen, you invite the pain in. That's what opens your eyes, even though that's what shamatha is all about—seeing pain, seeing pleasure, seeing everything with gentleness and accuracy, without judging it, without pushing it away, becoming more open to it.

When the world is filled with evil, Transform all mishaps into the path of bodhi.

si podemos mantener aunque sólo sea una relación incondicional con una persona, podemos tener una relación incondicional con el mundo.

Life is a good teacher and a good friend

We are all capable of becoming fundamentalists because we get addicted to other people's wrongness.

True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings.

The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.

My experience with forgiveness is that it sort of comes spontaneously at a certain point and to try to force it it's not really forgiveness. It's Buddhist philosophy or something spiritual jargon that you're trying to live up to but you're just using it against yourself as a reason why you're not okay.

To lead a life that goes beyond pettiness and prejudice and always wanting to make sure that everything turns out on our own terms, to lead a more passionate, full, and delightful life than that, we must realize we can endure a lot of pain and pleasure for the sake of finding out who we are and what this world is. (The Wisdom of No Escape, p. 3)

When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast and limitless.

Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.

Sometimes people's spiritual ideas become fixed and they use them against those who don't share their beliefs - in effect, becoming fundamentalist. It's very dangerous - the finger of righteous indignation pointing at someone who is identified as bad or wrong.

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher." - "You are the sky. Everything else – it's just the weather."-

Quando la nostra mente è riempita dal calore dell'umorismo, entriamo in contatto con il meglio che c'è in noi. accogliere l'inaccettabile p#120

we think that by protecting ourselves from suffering we are being kind to ourselves. the truth is, we only become more fearful, more hardened, and more alienated.

there is nobody on the planet, neither those whom we see as the oppressed nor those whom we see as the oppressor, who doesn't have what it takes to wake up.

Florence tenía buen corazón, aunque eso sirve de bien poco cuando de lo que se trata es de sobrevivir.

People are always meaning well,' said Edward. 'That's often the trouble.

I simply wanted to remind you that a man without sleep, food and leisure is indistinguishable from a man without charity, patience or a sense of humour.

The body of Christ—yes, we may be; broken, we certainly are. And we may be limping along to begin with, but when Christ takes us into his hands he breaks us again—tears us to shreds at times. He has to grab hold of our pride… arrogance… contempt… cynicism… hardheartedness… He has to break those things up, or there would never be any humility, no compassion, no gratitude.

Today in the United States, corpses that are unclaimed or unidentified or that no family member or friend can afford to bury are generally buried in mass graves. In Chicago, Illinois, they are buried in groups of about thirty-five in a memorial park. In New York City they are ferried to Hart Island for burial in a mass grave. These free burial sites are typically known as potter's fields.

A dor faz-nos cruéis, A dor muito prolongada faz-nos cruéis e indiferentes à crueldade, o que é ainda pior.