Compassion Quotes - Page 33

• Compassion and empathy are not the same as feeling sorry for oneself. They are emotions that extend our perceptual ranges.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sorry, Empathy, Feelings

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• Energy is gained by giving energy. When we give energy, we gain energy. This is different than having someone manipulate you and take your energy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Giving, Energy, Different

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• The essence of the teachings is to lose self importance and to care more for the welfare of others and the magical world around us, than we do for ourselves and our own self images.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teaching, Self, Essence

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• One of the traditional Tantric methods of mediation is to imagine that you are taking on the suffering of all beings.

  Frederick Lenz

  Suffering, Imagine, Method

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• As we hate ourselves less, we tend to hate other people less too.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hate, Buddhism, People

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• In self-giving you must be so careful of egotism. You must be so careful when you are aiding others in their liberation not to have a sense of self.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Self, Giving

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• In my estimation it's silly to go out and spend your time aiding people if you don't have your own act together yet. So I'd rather you spend the time, get it right, and it'll all work out a lot better.

  Frederick Lenz

  Silly, People, Work Out

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• In future years a number of you will become spiritual teachers. After many years of study and doing a good job, go out into the world and teach people.You'll reach points of advancement where you'll be able to be of great help to many, many people.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Teacher, Jobs

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• It's suggested that enlightenment has some tremendous compassion, some driving necessity to help humanity. I don't think that's the case at all. I think humanity wishes it were the case since it's humanity that writes the various scriptures.

  Frederick Lenz

  Writing, Thinking, Humanity

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• I realize that there's a thing called the bodhisattva ideal, and it's a very nice pinnacle of attention. It's a very egotistical thought, ultimately.

  Frederick Lenz

  Nice, Attention, Realizing

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• To have to liberate everybody doesn't sound very free to me. You're gong to go liberate people who maybe don't want to be liberated.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Sound, Want

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• To feel that you are the Buddha of all times and places and that in some way the salvation of anyone, including yourself, depends upon you, I think there's a lot of ego involved in such a view, not much self-transcendence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Thinking, Self, Views

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• I respect self-giving and I've tried to lead my life with that as the ideal. But real self-giving is when we take our being, that which is most precious to us, and we throw it into eternity with a total sense of offering.

  Frederick Lenz

  Real, Offering, Self

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• Selfless-giving burns away the layers of the onion. Purity and humility keep meditation and selfless-giving clear. Love radiates through the entire practice because we do all of it only for love.

  Frederick Lenz

  Humility, Selfless Giving, Practice

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• Love the fading flowers as much as you love the undifferentiated which lasts forever.

  Frederick Lenz

  Flower, Forever, Fading

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• By perfecting the practices of zazen and mindfulness, by learning patience and love and by realizing the essential emptiness of all phenomena, you will discover nirvana.

  Frederick Lenz

  Practice, And Love, Essentials

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• For all her active goodness, Florence Nightingale herself was far from being the angelic figure of popular adulation: according to Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians she was a self-righteous, domineering amazon, who was ruthless in her compassion, merciless in her philantropy, destructive in friendships, obsessional in her list for power, and demonic in her saintliness.

  David Cannadine

  Self, Florence Nightingale, Amazon

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• I expect to see, on television, the porcine Governor of the State of Michigan decrying to the whole world that my client should be in jail for rendering kindness and compassion, primarily because the porcine Governor of the State of Michigan is a religious nut.

  Geoffrey Fieger

  Religious, Kindness, Nuts

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• Proclaim a theology of divine righteousness which demands justice, respect, tolerance, compassion, inclusiveness, trust in the ultimate efficacy of divine zeal, and the rigorous pursuit of peace in the midst of competing interests and faith claims.

  James A. Forbes

  Justice, Tolerance, Atheism

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• Human cruelty took the form of a pact with the deity. A solemn oath was made to kill everything, in which people forbade themselves any display of reason or compassion. A city or a land was devoted to destruction and it was believed an insult to God if one did not observe the abominable oath.

  Ernest Renan

  Land, Cities, People

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• I am on sort of a diet in terms of the Internet. It's the sheer quantity. It's the Niagara of opinion, of information. It's not that I have any kind of compassion fatigue. I just insist on having a life.

  Larry Gelbart

  Information, Opinion, Kind

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I think it's really healing to see movies that are based on true stories. It builds so much more compassion and empathy.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Healing, Thinking, Empathy

  "Vanessa Hudgens Talks GIMME SHELTER, Stepping Outside of Her Comfort Zone, Preparing for the Role, THE KITCHEN SINK, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. January 21, 2014.

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• 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.

  Gary Zukav

  People, Understanding, Different

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

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• Novels are political not because writers carry party cards -- some do, I do not -- but because good fiction is about identifying with and understanding people who are not necessarily like us. By nature all good novels are political because identifying with the other is political. At the heart of the 'art of the novel' lies the human capacity to see the world through others' eyes. Compassion is the greatest strength of the novelist.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Art, Lying, Eye

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• Children raised with love and compassion will be free to use their time as adults in meaningful and creative ways, rather than expressing their childhood hurts in ways that harm themselves or others. If adults have no need to deal with the past, they can live fully in the present.

  Jan Hunt

  Meaningful, Hurt, Children

  Jan Hunt (2013). “The Natural Child: Parenting from the Heart”, p.4, New Society Publishers

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