Quotes About Altruism

Loving-kindness and compassion are the two faces of altruism. It is their object that distinguishes them: loving-kindness wants all beings to experience happiness, while compassion focuses on eradicating their suffering.

The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world or, to put it another way, to transform ourselves so we can become better human beings in order to serve others in a wiser and more efficient way. It gives your life the noblest possible meaning.

We can move gradually from total confusion, dominated by hatred and other mental poisons, to an intermediate stage of serenity, altruistic joy, and self-mastery before finally arriving at enlightenment, which will give us a true vision of phenomena's ultimate nature. At that point, knowledge functions with an immediate certitude that transcends discursive thought.

The happiest man is he who has no trace of malice in his soul. PLATO

When I engaged in meditation on altruistic love and compassion, Tania noted that the cerebral networks activated were very different. In particular, the network linked to negative emotions and distress was not activated during meditation on compassion, while certain cerebral areas traditionally associated with positive emotions, with the feeling of affiliation and maternal love, for instance, were.

Sober, a philosopher of science, has shown through convincing models that isolated, selfless individuals who come into contact with only selfish and violent individuals will be taken advantage of and tend to disappear quickly.4 Conversely, when such altruists group together and cooperate with one another, they have a definite evolutionary advantage over the selfish people, who also fight among themselves and therefore may slowly disappear from the population.

Altruism is like rings in the water when you toss a pebble. At first the circles are very small, then they get larger, and finally they embrace the entire surface of the ocean. —ALEXANDRE JOLLIEN

Over the course of discussions with Tania and her collaborators, we noted that compassion and altruistic love were associated with positive emotions. So we arrived at the idea that burnout was in fact a kind of "empathy fatigue" and not "compassion fatigue.

achieving durable happiness as a way of being is a skill. It requires sustained effort in training the mind and developing a set of human qualities, such as inner peace, mindfulness, and altruistic love.

First we conceive the "I" and grasp onto it. Then we conceive the "mine" and cling to the material world. Like water trapped on the water wheel, we spin in circles, powerless. I praise the compassion that embraces all beings. – Chandrakirti

le rapport entre bonté et bien-être s'explique par le fait que l'homme est un « animal social » et que, de sa naissance à sa mort, son existence et sa survie dépendent étroitement de l'entraide et de la bienveillance dont il bénéficiera et dont il fera preuve à son tour à l'égard d'autrui.

Quand vous aimez quelqu'un, vous ne pouvez espérer qu'il fasse ce qui vous plaît. Cela reviendrait à vous aimer vous-même4. »

altruism. It is their object that distinguishes them:

le bouddhisme en appelle à une pratique de transformation personnelle pour que l'agent moral grandisse en sagesse, ce qui lui permet d'adopter une motivation plus altruiste et de bénéficier d'une clarté d'esprit accrue pour affiner son jugement.

Dans la pitié, ce qui est premier c'est la tristesse. Je suis triste que l'autre souffre, mais je ne l'aime pas vraiment. Dans la compassion, ce qui est premier c'est l'amour79

l'amour de soi conduit à souhaiter son propre bien, tandis que l'amour égoïste conduit à ne souhaiter que celui-ci.

I've got to stop thinking about myself so much--about how I look, how I'm impressing someone, whether I'm popular or not. I've got to start thinking about other people, all the people I meet.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

Be good at the depth of you, and you will discover that those who surround you will be good even to the same depths. Nothing responds more infallibly to the secret cry of goodness than the secret cry of goodness that is near. While you are actively good in the invisible, all those who approach you will unconsciously do things that they could not do by the side of any other man.

Before we can bring happiness to others, we first must be happy ourselves; nor will happiness abide within us unless we confer it on others. If there be a smile upon our lips, those around us will soon smile too; and our happiness will become the truer and deeper as we see that these others are happy. "It is not seemly that I, who, willingly, have brought sorrow to none, should permit myself to be sad," said Marcus Aurelius, in one of his noblest passages.

There may be human joy in doing good with definite purpose, but they who do good expecting nothing in return know a joy that is divine.

And indeed, if we had only the courage to listen to the simplest, the nearest, most pressing voice of our conscience, and be deaf to all else, it were doubtless our solitary duty to relieve the suffering about us to the greatest extent in our power.

The basis lies in the idea that if you're kind to others, good things will happen to you.

To do good to others because we want them to do good to us is essentially selfish. In time we must learn to do good regardless of how we are treated by others; as Christ said, we must love even our enemies.