Quotes About Compassion

Életünk utolsó pillanataiban csak a hozzánk legközelebb állóknak lenne szabad osztozniuk. Többek között éppen ezért olyan megbocsáthatatlan a gyilkosság: er?szakosan oda tolakszik, ahol semmi keresnivalója.

It's a cold, stark emptiness that has no laughter in it. No compassion, and no mercy. It's feral. Like the eyes of a hunting animal.

A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.

My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience.

If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.

I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.

It's funny how easy it is to point out other peoples mistakes and make our own mistakes seem insignificant.

As you become more intimate with your suffering, your heart grows tender.

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.

When we struggle to change ourselves we, in fact, only continue the patterns of self-judgement and aggression. We keep the war against ourselves alive.

In this there is no judgment and no blame, for we seek not to perfect the world but to perfect our love for what is on this earth.

It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.

Your happiness and suffering depend on your actions and not on my wishes for you.

Live in joy, in love, even among those who hate.

May I be a guard for those who need protection; a guide for those on the path; a boat, a raft, a bridge for those to cross the flood; may I be a lamp in the darkness; a resting place for the weary, and a healing medicine for all who are sick. For as long as Earth and sky endure, may I assist until all living beings are awakened.

But forgiveness is the act of not putting anyone out of your heart, even those who are acting out of deep ignorance or out of confusion and pain.

In this world, hatred never ceases by hatred, but by love alone is healed. This is the ancient and eternal law.

Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.

Letting go does not mean not caring about things. It means caring for them in a flexible and wise way. In meditation, we pay attention to our body with care and respect.

When we let ourselves feel the fear, the discontent, the difficulties we have always avoided, our heart softens. Just as it is a courageous act to face all the difficulties from which we have always run, it is also an act of compassion.

Things are wrong and people misbehave, causing our hatred and suffering to arise. But however painful our experiences may be, they are just painful experiences until we add the response of aversion or hatred. Only then does suffering arise. If we react with hatred and aversion, these qualities become habitual. Like a distorted autoimmune response, our misguided reaction of hatred does not protect us; rather, it becomes the cause of our continued unhappiness.

When we feel anger toward someone, we can consider that he or she is a being just like us, who has faced much suffering in life.

It's not about you. It's about us. Life is difficult for everyone.