Quotes of: Compassion Keyword

Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. And compassion helps us as well.

Joan Halifax

[The] insistence on the absolutely indiscriminate nature of compassion within the Kingdom is the dominant perspective of almost all of Jesus' teaching. What is indiscriminate compassion? 'Take a look at a rose. Is is possible for the rose to say, "I'...

Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

True compassion is undirected & holds no conceptual focus. That kind of genuine, true compassion is only possible after realizing emptiness.

Carefree Dignity: Discourses on Training in the Nature of Mind

It is the very use of coercion, positive or negative, that breaks or deadens the spirit, which is the source of motivation.

Don't Be Nice, Be Real: Balancing Passion for Self with Compassion for Others

Often, the greater our ignorance about something, the greater our resistance to change.

Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect

The more cashless our society becomes, the more our moral compass slips.

The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone--Especially Ourselves

It is true that the church must be in many places and with many people, but it is the poor who will reveal to the church—dramatically and poignantly—the nature of its heart and mission.

Radical Compassion: Finding Christ in the Heart of the Poor

Instead of allowing wealth and resources to change us, we must choose to allow God to change our way of thinking about wealth and resources

Living Justice: Revolutionary Compassion in a Broken World

Dominion does not mean domination. We hold dominion over animals only because of our powerful and ubiquitous intellect. Not because we are morally superior. Not because we have a "right" to exploit those who cannot defend themselves. Let us use our b...

Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect

Compassion dervies from the Latin patiri and the Greek pathein, meaning "to suffer, undergo or experience." So "compassion" means "to endure [something] with another person," to put ourselves in somebody else's shoes, to feel her pain as though it we...

Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life

We train in the bodhichitta practices in order to become so open that we can take the pain of the world in, let it touch our hearts, and turn it into compassion.

Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion

When you use your energy and resources to punish people, you run out of energy and resources to protect people.

Don't Be Nice, Be Real: Balancing Passion for Self with Compassion for Others

Beginning and committing to a dream interpretation practice is one of the best gifts anyone can give themselves. This is truly the greatest guidance anyone could ask for.

The Giant Compass: Navigating the life of your dreams

It's amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people yourself is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering...

Penn Jillette

I strongly believe that the art of the novel works best when the writer identifies with whoever he or she is writing about. Novels in the end are based on the human capacity, compassion, and I can show more compassion to my characters if I write in a...

Orhan Pamuk

Although other animals may be different from us, this does not make them LESS than us

Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect

The strongest, toughest men all have compassion. They're not heartless and cold. You have to be man enough to have compassion - to care about people and about your children" (217) - John Singleton "Oh Man, I've Become My Father

A Hand to Guide Me

The three jewels of Tao: compassion, moderation, and humility. Balthasar said compassion leads to courage, moderation leads to generosity, and humility leads to leadership.

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Attain complete emptiness, Hold fast to stillness. Understanding the ordinary: Mind opens. Mind opening leads to compassion, Compassion to nobility, Nobility to heavenliness, Heavenliness to TAO. TAO endures. Your body dies. There is no danger.

Tao Te Ching

In order to master compassion, you have to spend time getting to know monsters. When you can do that you will see that there are no monsters, only people that acted like monsters because no one gave them the time or compassion to hear their story.

Shannon L. Alder

The sick person becomes very adept at distinguishing between compassion and pity. Compassion is someone else’s suffering flaring in your own nerves. Pity is a projection of, a lament for, the self. All those people weeping in the mirror of your mis...

Christian Wiman