Compassion Quotes - Page 32

• The best part of all is that no matter how long you practice, or what method you use, every technique of Buddhist meditation ultimately generates compassion.

  Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

  Buddhist, Practice, Long

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• Compassion is a Shepherd, Always tending his herd.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Shepherds, Herds

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• What is the relationship between spirituality and ethical practice? Since love and compassion and similar qualities all, by definition, presume some level of concern for others' well-being, they presume ethical restraint. We cannot be loving and compassionate unless at the same time we curb our own harmful impulses and desires.

  Dalai Lama

  Practice, Concern For Others, Desire

  The Dalai Lama (2012). “The Essence Of Wisdom”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• Steadfast benevolence, sustained by the wisdom that anything other than benevolence is painful, protects the mind from all afflictions.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Mind, Affliction, Painful

  Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D. (2008). “Happiness Is an Inside Job: Practicing for a Joyful Life”, p.13, Ballantine Books

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• The danger of a closed mind is that it can also leave good things like love, compassion and reason on its outside.

  Lennox Lewis

  Like Love, Mind, Reason

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• Politics come from man. Mercy, compassion, and justice come from God.

  John Terry

  Men, Justice, Mercy

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• I started to see human beings as little lonesome, water based, pink meat, life forms pushing air through themselves and making noises that the other little pieces of meat seemed to understand. I was thinking to myself, 'There's five billion people here but we've never been more isolated.' The only result of the aggressive individualism we pursue is that you lose sight of your compassion and we go to bed at night thinking, 'Is this all there is?' because we don't feel fulfilled.

  Devin Townsend

  Night, Thinking, Sight

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• I understand the most profound and simplest Truth of all: Any time any of us reaches out, any time we pour even a drop of love, compassion, simple human decency (no matter how small; how seemingly insignificant) into the sea of earthly existence - we are, each and every one of us - the being called Mercy.

  J. M. DeMatteis

  Simple, Sea, Profound

  "Mercy". Book by J.M. DeMatteis and Paul Johnson, 1993.

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• Brian Turner writes as only a soldier can, of terror and compassion, hurt and horror, sympathy and desire. He takes us into the truth and trauma of the Iraq war in language that is precise, delicate and beautiful, even as it tells of a suicide bomber, a skull shattered by a bullet, a blade in a bloodgroove.

  Andrew Himes

  Beautiful, Suicide, Hurt

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

  Joan Halifax

  Thinking, Weak

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• The two Virtues of Equanimity and Compassion become more available to the person whose ego-shell has been smashed-either by great suffering or by great love-or by both.

  Richard Rohr

  Two, Great Love, Ego

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• The heroic New York doctor who caught Ebola has been declared Ebola free. President Obama called the doctor to thank him for his selflessness and compassion. Then to be safe, Obama threw his phone in a trash can and lit it on fire.

  Jimmy Fallon

  New York, Fire, Doctors

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• Taylor Swift's dedication to advocacy at such a young age continues to inspire me, and I'm delighted to honor her as one of our 2012 Ripple of Hope Award recipients. [...] and especially the compassion she's shown as a proud defender against bullying and LGBTI discrimination. [...] As a young person, Taylor has already accomplished so much, and I look forward to watching all that she will do to help build a brighter, more peaceful world for us all.

  Kerry Kennedy

  Bullying, Dedication, Awards

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• [When we drop our agendas] we begin to cultivate a mind of true goodness and compassion, which comes out of a concern for the Whole. As we live out of such a mind, we become generous, with no sense of giving or of making a sacrifice. We become open, with no sense of tolerance. We become patient, with no sense of putting up with anything. We become compassionate, with no sense of separation. And we become wise, with no sense of having to straighten anyone out.

  Steve Hagen

  Wise, Sacrifice, Giving

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• God is the evolutionary impulse of the universe. God is infinite creativity, infinite love, infinite compassion, infinite caring.

  Deepak Chopra

  Creativity, Caring, Infinite

  "What Is God? Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson and Other Leaders Give Their Definition". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 21, 2012.

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• You are only as powerful as that for which you stand. Do you stand for more money in the bank and a bigger house? Do you stand for an attractive mate? Do you stand for imposing your way of thinking upon others? These are the stands of the personality seeking to satisfy its wants. Do you stand for perfection, for the beauty and compassion of each soul? Do you stand for forgiveness and humbleness? These are the stands of the personality that has aligned itself with its soul. This is the position of a truly powerful Personality.

  Gary Zukav

  Inspirational, Powerful, Thinking

  Gary Zukav (1999). “The Seat of the Soul”, G K Hall & Company

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• After one arrives at the summit, after going through the total transformation of being...there is yet one more step to the completion of that journey: the return to the valley below, to the everyday world. Who it is that returns is not who began the climb in the first place. The being that comes back is quietness itself, is compassion and wisdom, is the truth of the ages. Whatever humble or elevated position that being holds within the community, he or she becomes a light for others on the way a statement of the freedom that comes from having touched the top of the mountain.

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  Ram Dass

  Inspirational, Humble, Journey

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• The more we study mind and matter scientifically the more we see that all things follow a natural sequence, a sequence as liable to work for our disadvantage as for our advantage. It flows like the water of a river, it falls like rain, it is as impartial as the sea. It is as innocent of malice as it is of compassion.

  Llewelyn Powys

  Rain, Fall, Sea

  Llewelyn Powys (1961). “Llewelyn Powys: A Selection from His Writings”

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• The Pope, if nothing else, should be a Catholic. If he were to announce that women would make great priests, except it's a pity that more of them aren't gay, because of the greater compassion they could bring to the task, it might endear him to liberal Catholic commentators , but it would make him something other than a Catholic, in the true sense.

  Declan Lynch

  Gay, Catholic, Tasks

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• Should we not begin to redefine patriotism? We need to expand it beyond that narrow nationalism which has caused so much death and suffering. If national boundaries should not be obstacles to trade-we call it globalization-should they also not be obstacles to compassion and generosity?

  Howard Zinn

  Peace, War, Generosity

  "Dying for the Government" by Howard Zinn, progressive.org. July 16, 2007.

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• Compassion allows us to accept everything. That's why there's always a tear in the eye of the Buddha that no one sees, for the pain and suffering of others.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Eye, Suffering Of Others

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• Help the world in any way that you want to. I have found that the more light you give and spread, the more you will evolve.

  Frederick Lenz

  Light, Giving, World

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• The secret teaching was the bodhisattva ideal, to live for others, for the welfare of all beings. That's enlightenment, not some flashy state of luminosity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teaching, Secret, Enlightenment

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• You have to refine your being. You have to go through all of the stages and steps of erasing yourself through service to others with purity, humility, integrity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Integrity, Humility, Steps

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• You only become funny when you have a complete reverence for life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reverence For Life, Reverence

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