Quotes About Compassion

Everyone, it seems, wants absolution for something.

Love is love is truth is love.

That woman doesn't have the sense God gave a retarded flea.

The wounded recognized the wounded.

Let us say to the people not 'How much have you got?' but 'How can we serve you?

Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.

Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.

A man can do something for peace without having to jump into politics. Each man has inside him a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a man to listen to his own goodness and act on it. Do we dare to be ourselves? This is the question that counts.

Time is the one thing that patients need most from their doctors--time to be heard, time to have things explained, time to reassured, time to be introduced by the doctor personally to specialists or other attendants whose very existence seems to reflect something new and threatening. yet the one thing that too many doctors find most difficult to command or manage is time.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness

If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

Some people don't really know enough to make a pronouncement of doom on a human being.

People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time.

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it withing his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

So long as men slaughter animals,' the master said, 'they won't stop killing each other.'1 [KONOPI?TE]

We now see that the only way that we could love ourselves is by loving others, and the only way that we could truly love others is to love ourselves. The difference between self-love and love of others is very small, once we really understand.

Real empathy requires that we develop the capacity to put our own concerns aside long enough to notice what someone else is going through internally, without reference to ourselves.

Spiritual awakening is exactly dropping the sense of one's narrow separateness; it is essentially and profoundly altruistic.

Compassion is sympathy for others specifically in the case of their suffering. Although it is uncomfortable, we are willing to feel the suffering of others and to do something about it when we can,

But the whole point of mind training is to promote, to the bottom of our hearts, down to our bones, even to the marrow, the understanding and the feeling that we are not alone in this sadly poignant situation. We are together in it with everyone else. And that makes it beautiful, and even joyful, no matter how hard it may get.

Sympathy, on the other hand, is empathy plus caring. When we're sympathetic to others, we want them to be happy and well, we don't want them to be upset or unhappy. We actually care about them. Compassion is sympathy for others specifically in the case of their suffering.

Forgiveness Meditation. Settle into meditation. Recall someone whom you know you need to forgive. Just let the person's image or the sense of who they are arise in your mind. Feel the feelings. Observe whatever happens without entanglement. Let the feelings come and go. Don't try to forgive, just be present.

True, the annals of humankind appear rife with violence. But, Gandhi contended, this was an optical illusion fostered by scribes and scholars who, by virtue of their profession, took note of the exceptions to the rule: "History is really a record of every interruption of the even working of the force of love or of the soul."3