#compassion

Life has two choices: create or destruct. These choices are the backbone for all, within oneself and outside oneself. Too many ways of thinking are described by too many people that have no idea. If you're attached to your ways then detach, so you can change. Use this detachment in your writing, relationships, and understanding of life. Our future as individuals, as nations, and as mankind can only go one way. It's our choice whether we want the painful path or the peaceful path. ↗

— Mark O'Brien

#counteracting-pain #hope #living-in-creativity #love #peace

We must throw out the old, fear-based thought-forms and evolve, and begin to live as higher beings of compassion. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#compassion #evolution #humanity #remove #change

We habitually erect a barrier called blame that keeps us from communicating genuinely with others, and we fortify it with our concepts of who's right and who's wrong. We do that with the people who are closest to us and we do it with political systems, with all kinds of things that we don't like about our associates or our society. It is a very common, ancient, well-perfected device for trying to feel better. Blame others....Blaming is a way to protect your heart, trying to protect what is soft and open and tender in yourself. Rather than own that pain, we scramble to find some comfortable ground. ↗

— Pema Chödrön

#compassion #inspiration #communication

How would your life be different if…You pretended those around you were deaf to your words? Let today be the day…You let your actions speak and communicate your feelings and intentions. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#communication #compassion #inspirational #intentions #kindness

Your truest spiritual path will lead you to yourself for it is devoted to becoming. ↗

— Mollie Marti

#compassion #life-design #reflection #design

We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#compassion #meditation #mindfulness #experience

Compassion is, by definition, relational. Compassion literally means “to suffer with,” which implies a basic mutuality in the experience of suffering. The emotion of compassion springs from the recognition that the human experience is imperfect. ↗

— Kristin Neff

#experience

[W]e need not become fixated upon our own suffering, whatever its origin. We offer it up, thus participating in the well-being of the universe. When we experience an illness or depression not as our own but as the universe’s, we are one with all beings who experience this kind of suffering. (78) ↗

— Jean-Yves Leloup

#depression #illness #suffering #well-being #experience

It is when we experience God most closely that our hearts burn most passionately to show his compassion to others. ↗

— Dillon Burroughs

#worship #experience

But those who are incapable of pitying animals are, as a matter of fact, incapable of pitying men. A physician who would cut a living rabbit in pieces -- laying bare the nerves, denuding them with knives, pulling them out with forceps -- would not hesitate to try experiments with men and women for the gratification of his curiosity. ↗

— Robert Ingersoll

#compassion #vivisection #experience