Quotes of: Compassion Keyword

It is clear that something is seriously lacking in the way we humans are going about things. But what is it that we lack? The fundamental problem, I believe, is that at every level we are giving too much attention to the external, material aspects of...

Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World

Etymologically, "compassion" means to suffer together. "Together," however, is different from "identically." Compassion is not the same as selflessness, and not really the opposite of selfishness. Rather, it provides a basis for helping other people ...

Never Enough: America's Limitless Welfare State

Kuan Yin is showing me picture of a windsurfer skimming effortlessly along the ocean's surface," describes Ms. Lees. "While quite skilled, he is nevertheless very focused on the elements around him. The windsurfer is focused upon how to turn the sail...

Oracle of Compassion: The Living Word of Kuan Yin

It's all a matter of perception. What one person deems to be important may be just as equally unimportant to another. What one deems to be right may seem very wrong to someone else. Your moral compass and values may not always be totally in sync with...

Michael Tianias

For an aspiring bodhisattva, the essential practice is to cultivate maitri, or loving-kindness.

Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion

He gains the farthest reaches where the ache of our most ancient absence lay.

Compass of Affection: Poems New and Selected

Therefore, let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.

Charge of the Goddess: The Mother of Modern Witchcraft

Show your compassion to people in their life time; no amount of your tears can serve as compensation when their coffins are lowered!

Daily Drive 365

Your passion is your internal compass that will guide you from where you are towards where you want to go.

Dreams to Action Trailblazer's Guide

Christmas is the spark within our hearts that ignites as each day grows closer and burns brightly with the promise of compassion, love and generosity of spirit.

Destiny's Gate

Compassion, acceptance and LOVE is the cure to MOST of the issues that plague this world.

The Day My Soul Cried: A Memoir

Nevertheless, in this sea of human wretchedness and malice there bloomed at times compassion, as a pale flower blooms in a putrid marsh.

In Desert and Wilderness

Compassion is often mistaken for weakness, when the fact is, there is very little that is more powerful than the courage it takes to give it.

With Everything I Am

Inherent in all persons does be, Love and compassion unfailingly. Give to others your love freely, And receive in turn love purely. [112] - 4

Eddies of Life

Compassion only plagues those with hearts, much like a field of thorns only troubles those who bleed.

Eena, The Companionship of the Dragon's Soul

The pain of childhood walks beside me as a friend, it teaches me how to invite the stillness of compassion - Shavasti

Embracing the Power of Truth

It says 'Bet you were expecting a heart, shaped like a compass...'" Jack paused and pulled the note off the bow tie. "...And then he drew a frowny face.

Evertrue

Nothing renews my faith in humanity more than the exchange of compassion so profound that mere words cannot embrace it.

Black and White

If you are fortunate in life, age and knowledge breed compassion. And as I have gotten older, I came to understand, that a person's sexual orientation has absolutely nothing to do with their ability to be a good parent.

Ronnie Musgrove

Christlike communications are expressions of affection and not anger, truth and not fabrication, compassion and not contention, respect and not ridicule, counsel and not criticism, correction and not condemnation. They are spoken with clarity and not...

L. Lionel Kendrick

Pity. What a useless emotion when you don't act on it. Pity is supposed to trigger compassion.

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