The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.
Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy.
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss.
When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.
Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals.
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void.
Science leads you to killing people.
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.
If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.
The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
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