Joan Halifax Quotes About Compassion

Quotes about: Compassion

• Many of us think that compassion drains us, but I promise you it is something that truly enlivens us.

  Joan Halifax

  Thinking, Compassion, Promise

• May I see my own limits with compassion, just as I view the limits of others.

  Joan Halifax

  Compassion, Views, May

• Don't ever think compassion is weak. Compassion is about strength.

  Joan Halifax

  Thinking, Compassion, Weak

• Most of us are shrinking in the face of psycho-social and physical poisons, of the toxins of our world. But compassion, the generation of compassion, actually mobilizes our immunity.

  Joan Halifax

  Compassion, Our World, Toxins

• We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a necessity for our well-being, resilience, and survival.

  Joan Halifax

  Compassion, Luxury, Survival

• Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.

  Joan Halifax

  Motivation, Inspiration, Compassion

• If compassion is so good for us, why don't we train our health care providers in compassion so that they can do what they're supposed to do, which is to transform suffering?

  Joan Halifax

  Motivation, Inspiration, Health

• I am working on a technical paper on compassion. So I am reading everything I can on the subject, including my own mind and heart.

  Joan Halifax

  Reading, Heart, Compassion

  Source: zenpeacemakers.org

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

  Joan Halifax

  Helping Others, Compassion, Way

• Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and to sense what will truly serve others.

  Joan Halifax

  Compassion, Wish, May

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