Quotes About Compassion

Nothing so clearly distinguishes a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother.

The only way to experience love is to give it.

Even secular humanism has great spiritual resources; it is almost like a religion to me.

Goodness, generosity, or love does not come into being save through the search for reality.

The Buddha said that no true spiritual life is possible without a generous heart. . . . Generosity allies itself with an inner feeling of abundance - the feeling that we have enough to share.

The spiritual law at the core of our being requires that we reach out. We are fulfilled to the extent that we live in relationships.

The truly good is he who is one with all those who are deemed bad.

Love does not expect anything in return

Speak of love with others. Remind each other of your spiritual purpose

An honorable spiritual practice recognizes the losses we have suffered, tells our story, and sheds our tears to free us from the past.

Without nourishing our own souls, we can't nourish the world, for we cannot give what we do not have. As we attend to our souls, we emanate invisibly and involuntarily the light we have received.

The greatest spiritual blessing comes from helping another.

The suffering is in the mind. The mind. In the mind. Witness it. From your spiritual heart.

Whoever has a spiritual gift and compassionate toward one who does not have it guards his gift through his compassion. But whoever is proud of his gift loses it through self-opinion.

As we immerse ourselves in the service of others, we find our spiritual selves and come unto Him.

When repeated difficulties do arise, our first spiritual approach is to acknowledge what is present, naming, softly saying 'sadness, sadness', or 'remembering, remembering', or whatever.

Although I may not be my brother's keeper, I am my brother's brother, and 'because I have been given much, I too must give.'

No piled-up wealth, no social station, no throne, reaches as high as that spiritual plane upon which every human being stands by virtue of his humanity.

Eventually, I think you find a spiritual and emotional connection with someone, and I think it unifies you with everyone else. I think if you love one person, it makes you love everyone.

They say: 'If a man knew himself, he would know all mankind.' I say: 'If a man loved mankind, he would know something of himself.

A mind that practices love cannot love.

For the poor, the economic is spiritual.

Keep interested in others, keep interested in the wide and wonderful world. Then in a spiritual sense you will always be young

Relax in my love and in turn pour forth that Divine Love out to the world.