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In the '80s and '90s, there was some degree of compassion for people with HIV because there was visible human suffering.Collection: Compassion
Compassion is the litmus test.Collection: Compassion
True compassion comes from free will by drawing empathy from within.Collection: Compassion
Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion, and it is the beginning of morality.Collection: Compassion
We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.Collection: Compassion
Human courtship has some wild extremes. At one end of the spectrum, there is harassment, pestering, blackmail, and an abuse of institutional power, which its targets rightly fear and loathe. At the other end is love, which as Nietzsche said, is beyond good and evil and always deserves our respect and compassion even when it is doomed or destructive. In the wide middle of the spectrum are all the ambiguous and tragi-comic goings-on of our species.Collection: Compassion
Recent breakthroughs in science show we have just the capacities we need to face our planet's challenges. We're "soft-wired" for cooperation, empathy, fairness, along with a deep need to "make a dent," as social philosopher Erich Fromm put it. My hunch is that one reason depression is a global pandemic is that the dominant mental map denies so many of us expression of these deep needs and capacities.Collection: Compassion
I remind myself of the power of thought and how it's my obligation as a citizen (and student) of humanity to propel compassion.Collection: Compassion
Oxytocin is lauded for how it promotes warmth, generosity, social bonding, cooperation, trust, and compassion.Collection: Compassion
Our rewards in life will always be in exact proportion to the amount of consideration we show toward others.Collection: Compassion
I don’t have a definition of God, because I’ve never really understood that word. People have different understandings of it and it’s caused a great deal of conflict. If I had to say what would my definition of God be, if I were going to use that word, I would say that this universe has layers upon layers upon layers of compassion and wisdom beyond ours.Collection: Compassion
Other people have more than they need, I alone seem wanting.Collection: Compassion
The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the other.... The whole purpose of life is to live by love.Collection: Compassion
No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand.Collection: Compassion
Compassion makes no distinction between friends and enemies, neighbors and outsiders, compatriots and foreigners. Compassion is the gate to human community.Collection: Compassion
Compassion is the ability to understand how difficult it is for people to be the best of what they want to be at all times.Collection: Compassion
Compassion for the other comes out of our ability to accept ourselves. Until we realize both our own weaknesses and our own privileges, we can never tolerate lack of status and depth of weakness in the other.Collection: Compassion
What value has compassion that does not take its object in its arms?Collection: Compassion
Service broadens your vision widens your awareness. Deepens your compassion.Collection: Compassion
The hardest thing we are asked to do in this world is to remain aware of suffering, suffering about which we can do nothing.Collection: Compassion
To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer, which is the ground for unsentimental compassion and love.Collection: Compassion
Religion has nothing to do with compassion; it is our love for God that is the main thing because we have all been created for the sole purpose to love and be loved.Collection: Compassion
God, help me to see others not as enemies or as ungodly but rather as thirsty people. And give me the courage and compassion to offer your Living Water, which alone quenches deep thirst.Collection: Compassion
There is a tendency sometimes within the Shambhala community to make it just about meditating and, so, less about compassion. Shambhala is based upon compassion, but a lot of people come in and say, "I need to get more meditation. I need to do this for me, me, me." That's fine, but the view here is much more societal.Collection: Compassion
I hope that when the time comes, I am treated with compassion and allowed to pass on to the next phase of life's journey in the manner of my choice.Collection: Compassion
One is that you legislate according to natural selection, the other is that you don't. You have compassion, you try and help people. It's a fundamental clash between two people who happen to love each other, which complicates everything.Collection: Compassion
To the good I would be good; to the not-good I would also be good, in order to make them good.Collection: Compassion
Compassion is an essential element of love.Collection: Compassion
Everywhere I go, I see very much the same thing. I see the same compassion for people who live half a world away. I see the same concern about events beyond these borders. And, increasingly, I see the same conviction that we can and we must join together to stop the scourge of AIDS and poverty.Collection: Compassion
There is nothing more ugly than an orthodoxy without understanding or compassion.Collection: Compassion
Whenever it happens it is never late; whenever it happens it is always early. The happening is so great that you cannot claim it for yourself. You cannot say: `I have earned it.` The happening is so great that it is always through grace and not through effort. It happens through effortlessness. Whenever it happens, you know well that it is through compassion, grace, that it has happened. It has nothing to do with you or your earningCollection: Compassion
Earth Democracy connects people in circles of care, cooperation, and compassion instead of dividing them through competition and conflict, fear and hatred.Collection: Compassion
Violence is not the answer, it doesn’t work any more. We are at the end of the worst century in which the greatest atrocities in the history of the world have occurred... The nature of human beings must change. We must cultivate love and compassion.Collection: Compassion
A lot of people do their practice. They meditate on compassion. Then they yell at people afterwards. That is not quite working. One of the things I try to emphasize is contemplative meditation - bringing your thought and intention into meditation.Collection: Compassion
Those who have compassion when they do battle will be victorious. Those who likewise defend themselves will be safe. Heaven will rescue and protect them with compassion.Collection: Compassion
If the sage wants to stand above people, he must speak to them from below. If he wants to lead people, he must follow them from behind.Collection: Compassion
All my life, Following Care along the dusty road, Have I looked back on loveliness and sighed.Collection: Compassion
We sometimes confuse sin with sinner, and we condemn too quickly and with too little compassion. We know from modern revelation that ‘the worth of souls is great in the sight of God.’ We cannot gauge the worth of another soul any more than we can measure the span of the universe.Collection: Compassion
What we do about our feelings determines the quality of our relationship with ourselves.Collection: Compassion
In fantasy stories we learn to understand the differences of others, we learn compassion for those things we cannot fathom, we learn the importance of keeping our sense of wonder. The strange worlds that exist in the pages of fantastic literature teach us a tolerance of other people and places and engender an openness toward new experience. Fantasy puts the world into perspective in a way that 'realistic' literature rarely does. It is not so much an escape from the here-and-now as an expansion of each reader's horizons.Collection: Compassion
The hand of benevolence is everywhere stretched out, searching into abuses, righting wrongs, alleviating distresses, and bringing to the knowledge and sympathies of the world the lowly, the oppressed, and the forgotten.Collection: Compassion
Small minds select narrow roads; expand your mental vision and take to the broad road of helpfulness, compassion and service.Collection: Compassion
We want people to change because they see better ways of meeting their needs at less cost, not because of fear that we're going to punish them, or 'guilt' them if they don't. This applies to ourselves as well.Collection: Compassion
I want people to help me reanchor the church to undeniable, mind-boggling, culture-shifting demonstration of compassion and generosity. Because, generosity was the hallmark of the early church.Collection: Compassion
Poverty is a reaper: it harvests everything inside us that might have made us capable of social intercourse with others, and leaves us empty, purged of feeling, so that we may endure all the darkness of the present day.Collection: Compassion
What is my great wish and intention, is to make a base of compassion and to encourage people to work to shift the energy.Collection: Compassion
I've learned that under everyone's hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved.Collection: Compassion
I've always said that lovingkindness and compassion are inevitably woven throughout meditation practice even if the words are never used or implied, no matter what technique or method we are using.Collection: Compassion
Listening reminds me how precious it is to be here at all. And so, listening is the first step to peace, both inner peace and the compassion that connects people.Collection: Compassion