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• Anyone familiar with the numerous accounts of the Buddha's extraordinary compassion and reverence for living beings - for example his insistence that his monks strain the water they drink lest they inadvertently cause the death of any micro-organisms - could never believe that he would be indifferent to the sufferings of domestic animals caused by their slaughter of food

  Philip Kapleau

  Believe, Animal, Vegetarianism

  Philip Kapleau (1982). “To Cherish All Life: A Buddhist Case for Becoming Vegetarian”, Harper San Francisco

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• Parents who have been successful in acquiring more often have a difficult time saying no to the demands of overindulged children. Their children run the risk of not learning important values like hard work, delayed gratification, honesty, and compassion.

  H. David Burton

  Running, Children, Honesty

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• AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.

  Sam Kinison

  People, Disease, Aids

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• Africans believe in something that is difficult to render in English. We call it ubuntu, botho. It means the essence of being human. You know when it is there and when it is absent. It speaks about humaneness, gentleness, hospitality, putting yourself out on behalf of others, being vulnerable. It embraces compassion and toughness. It recognizes that my humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

  Desmond Tutu

  Believe, Mean, Ubuntu

  Desmond Tutu, Naomi Tutu (1989). “The words of Desmond Tutu”, Newmarket Pr

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• There is no peace in Southern Africa. There is no peace because there is no justice. There can be no real peace and security until there be first justice enjoyed by all the inhabitants of that beautiful land. The Bible knows nothing about peace without justice, for that would be crying "peace, peace, where there is no peace". God's Shalom, peace, involves inevitably righteousness, justice, wholeness, fullness of life, participation in decision-making, goodness, laughter, joy, compassion, sharing and reconciliation.

  Desmond Tutu

  Beautiful, Laughter, Real

  Desmond Tutu's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1984.

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• Christ has no body now but yours. No hands, no feet on earth but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good. Yours are the hands through which he blesses all the world. Yours are the hands, yours are the feet, yours are the eyes, you are his body. Christ has no body now on earth but yours.

  Teresa of Avila

  Eye, Hands, Feet

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• Jurors want courtroom lawyers to have some compassion and be nice.

  Johnnie Cochran

  Nice, Want, Lawyer

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• Grant that I have enough suffering that my heart really opens to the great compassion of this world, that I be given enough so that I don't wall myself off from the world, that it breaks down the heart and the separation and the ego and the fear, and it lets me touch the nectar, the milk of kindness itself, of something greater.

  Jack Kornfield

  Wall, Kindness, Heart

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• The ends do not justify the means. If our actions will bring harm to others, even in the service of some 'good,' they are almost certainly deluded. If our actions do not come from a kind heart, from loving courage and compassion, they are deluded. If they are based on a distinction between 'us' and 'them,' they stem from delusion. Only to the extent that we act from the wisdom of no separation, understanding how we are woven together, will our intention bring benefit.

  Jack Kornfield

  Heart, Mean, Understanding

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• Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering.

  Aleksander Kwasniewski

  Suffering, Able, Faces

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• What are you going to do? Are you going to keep looking backwards, full of anger, resentment and unfulfilled desire. Or are you going to be here now. Because everything is available for you in the here and now. Love, compassion, silence, bliss and Oneness.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Oneness, Silence, Desire

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• Put anger aside. It is not a solution. Patience and love is a solution. With compassion and action, together we can end slavery.

  Somaly Mam

  Forgiveness, Love Is, Together We Can

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• Online we have a compassion deficit

  Monica Lewinsky

  Online, Deficit

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• Somewhere within all of us is a wordless center, a part of us that hopes to be immortal in some way, a part that has remained unchanged since we were children, the source of our strength and compassion. This faint confluence of the tangible and the spiritual is where Art comes from. It has no known limits, and once you tap into it you will realize what truly rich choices you have. May each painting you do from that sacred place include an expression of gratitude for the extraordinary privilege of being an artist.

  Richard Schmid

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Art

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• In a situation of potential conflict, let compassion guide you.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Conflict, Guides, Situation

  Sharon Salzberg (2013). “Real Happiness at Work: Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace”, p.139, Workman Publishing

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• Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Love Is, Energy, Grows

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from May 14, 2013

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• As we practice meditation we are bringing forth ease, presence, compassion, wisdom & trust.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Practice, Meditation, Ease

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Apr 03, 2013

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• 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

  Wish, May, Capacity

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• As a Buddhist, I was trained to be tolerant of everything except intolerance. I was brought up not only to develop the spirit of tolerance but also to cherish moral and spiritual qualities such as modesty, humility, compassion, and, most important, to attain a certain degree of emotional equilibrium.

  U Thant

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Humility

  Thant (U) (1978). “View from the UN”, Doubleday Books

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• If women understand by emancipation the adoption of the masculine role then we are lost indeed. If women can supply no counterbalance to the blindness of male drive the aggressive society will run to its lunatic extremes at ever-escalating speed. Who will safeguard the despised animal faculties of compassion, empathy, innocence and sensuality?

  Germaine Greer

  Running, Animal, Adoption

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.

  Suzan-Lori Parks

  Reflection, Opportunity, Self

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• The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all.

  Mencius

  Two, Want, Way

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• He who abstains from anything animate ... will be much more careful not to injure those of his own species. For he who loves the genus will not hate any species of animals.

  Porphyry

  Hate, Animal, Cruelty

  Porphyry (1823). “Select works of Porphyry; containing his four books On Abstinence from Animal Food; his treatise on the Homeric Cave of the Nymphs; and his Auxiliaries to the Perception of Intelligible Natures. Translated from the Greek by T. Taylor; with an appendix, explaining the allegory of the Wanderings of Ulysses, by the translator”, p.126

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• I had rather, if cruelty has been prevented by the four prints [The Four Stages of Cruelty], be maker of them than of the [Raphael] cartoons.

  William Hogarth

  Cartoon, Four, Makers

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• Who can go to a rodeo and then criticize the hunter? ... an expertly placed bullet would be the best gift a rodeo horse could receive.

  Roger Caras

  Horse, Hunters, Would Be

  Roger A. Caras (1971). “Death as a Way of Life”

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