Quotes About Compassion

the only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion

You cannot do a kindness too soon, because you never know how soon it will be too late.

Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.

The resistance to the unpleasant situation is the root of suffering.

When we see the Beloved in each person, it's like walking through a garden, watching flowers bloom all around us.

By acting compassionately, by helping to restore justice and to encourage peace, we are acknowledging that we are all part of one another.

Souls love. That's what souls do. Egos don't, but souls do. Become a soul, look around, and you'll be amazed-all the beings around you are souls. Be one, see one. When many people have this heart connection, then we will know that we are all one, we human beings all over the planet. We will be one. One love. And don't leave out the animals, and trees, and clouds, and galaxies-it's all one. It's one energy.

You may protest if you can love the person you are protesting against as much as you love yourself.

Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act.

Do what you can on this plane to relieve suffering by constantly working on yourself to be an instrument for the cessation of suffering. To me, that's what the emerging game is all about.

It is only when you begin to understand that if you and I are truly in love, if I go to the place in me that is love and you to the place in you that is love we are 'together' in Love. We start to understand that what love means is that we are sharing a common state together. That state exists in you and it exists in me.

And suddenly I realized that he knew everything that was going on in my head, all the time, and that he still loved me. Because who we are is behind all that.

The art of listening comes from a quiet mind and an open heart.

That's who we all are on this path, spiritual family and friends. It's just one big family. We're all relatives until we realize we're really all the same and there's only one of us—one loving awareness. May you be one in that love.

Relationships only work in a spiritual sense when you and I really see that we are one.

At times Maharajji's behavior reminds me of a story Ramakrishna tells of a saint who asked a snake not to bite but to love everyone. The snake agreed. But then many people threw things at the snake. The saint found the snake all battered. "I didn't say not to hiss," said the saint.

This getting straight not only applies to people but to things as well, such as favorite music, disliked foods, special treats, avoided places, all your toys, etc. Everything must be rerun through your compassion machine.

Grace is at the nexus of love and awareness. There it's all open and it's all love.

Allow that you are at this moment not in the wrong place in your life. Consider the possibility that there have been no errors in the game. Just consider it. Consider that there is not an error, and everything that's come down on your plate is the way it is and here we are.

SEE GOD IN EVERYONE. IT IS DECEPTION TO TEACH BY INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES AND KARMA.3

As we acquire a certain degree of equanimity in self-image, we are that much more likely to feel empathy for those around us. We know what it's like to be a "self" moving through the world of "others." When someone feels particularly isolated or in pain, we don't need a great deal of information in order to come to his or her aid.

All acts of healing are ultimately our selves healing our Self. -Ram Dass

When you are in the presence of unconditional love, you are in the optimum environment for your heart to open.

So your first job is to work on yourself. The greatest thing you can do for another human being is to get your own house in order and find your true spiritual heart.