If you are motivated by loving kindness and compassion, there are many ways to bring happiness to others right now, starting with kind speech.
When you look deeply into your anger, you will see that the person you call your enemy is also suffering. As soon as you see that, the capacity of accepting and having compassion for them is there.
Happiness lies in making others happy, in forsaking self-interest to bring joy to others.
As we learn to have compassion for ourselves, the circle of compassion for others – what and whom we can work with, and how – becomes wider.
Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for all those unwanted parts of ourselves. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.
The world tells us to seek success, power and money; God tells us to seek humility, service and love.
Compassion is an action word with no boundaries.
Grief is the price we pay for love.
I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion – and where it isn’t, that’s where my work lies.
The sooner one develops compassion in this journey, the better. Compassion lets us appreciate that each individual is doing what he or she must do, and that there is no reason to judge another person or oneself. You merely do what you can to further your own awakening.
As you dissolve into love, your ego fades. You’re not thinking about loving; you’re just being love, radiating like the sun.
Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.
Compassion and pity are very different. Whereas compassion reflects the yearning of the heart to merge and take on some of the suffering, pity is a controlled set of thoughts designed to assure separateness. Compassion is the spontaneous response of love; pity, the involuntary reflex of fear.
Respect for human rights is not social work; it is not merely an act of compassion. It is the first obligation of government and the source of its legitimacy.
I went inside my heart to see how it was. Something there makes me hear the whole world weeping.
Through love, all pain will turn to medicine.
Free your heart from hatred – forgive. Free your mind from worries – most never happen. Live simply and appreciate what you have. Give more. Expect less.
Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.
Let us be kind to one another, to be aware of each other’s needs, and try to help in that regard.
It’s your unlimited power to care and to love that can make the biggest difference in the quality of your life.