Quotes About Compassion

You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back - it's hard for us to understand what the experience of a refugee might be like.

Don't judge everyone else by your own limited experience.

May you experience the truth that he, Christ, looks upon you with love.

To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.

I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience.

To hear that your neighbor was worse off than yourself was not an altogether unpleasant experience.

The commonality in the human experience is the same. We have the same sorrows, and the same triumphs. Joy is joy is joy.

It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting.

The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.

Ask, could my gifts, education, career, or experience be used to spread the gospel where it's needed most?

Someone who has experienced trauma also has gifts to offer all of us - in their depth, their knowledge of our universal vulnerability, and their experience of the power of compassion.

All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.

Whatever you wish to experience in your own lifetime, cause another to experience in theirs. What you bring to another, you bring to the Self, for there is no other in ultimate reality.

It is when you experience another's suffering as your own that your human values is manifested.

In the process of deeply accepting our own inner experience, instead of being identified with a story of a limited self, we realize the compassion and wakefulness that is our essence.

When our hearts open, when we know that we are in fact the world, when we experience the pain of others in our own blood and muscle, we are feeling compassion.

It's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.

I have an interest in giving people a cathartic experience, and making them look at homeless people differently, and making them question how they judge people, in general.

The higher oneÂ's level of helpfulness to others, the greater wellbeing one will experience.

It is the first experience you ever had of reading a decent poem: 'Oh, somebody else is lonely, too!

You have to look beyond race because as a human being you have to experience the person from the inside first

By reacting to aggression with aggression we lose the opportunity to spiritually benefit from the experience.

Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus empathic suffering is a true experience of suffering.

How can we eliminate the deepest source of all unsatisfactory experience? Only by cultivating certain qualities within our mindstream.