#compassion

Mindfulness can play a big role in transforming our experience with pain & other difficulties; it allows us to recognize the authenticity of the distress & yet not be overwhelmed by it. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#education #love #meditation #truth #education

Once we are able to combine a feeling of empathy for others with a profound understanding of the suffering they experience, we become able to generate genuine compassion for them. We must work at this continually. ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

#experience

Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path. ↗

— Tara Brach

#compassion #self-compassion #spiritual #freedom

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#compassion #considers #crumbs #full #himself

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

#art

If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it was kind to let me come and sit down and rejoice with you, because you’d think I should like to share those good things; but I should like better to share in your trouble and your labour. ↗

— George Eliot

#empathy #friendship #grief #friendship

Oh, Hank," Susan whispered, "their wings are furry." "Oh, James," Harriet whispered, "their hands are kind. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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If you truly want LOVE to enter your Heart, you HAVE to give a DAMN about what's going on around you!! ↗

— AainaA-Ridtz

#compassion #humanity #life #love #life

It only takes a split second to smile and forget, yet to someone that needed it, it can last a lifetime. We should all smile more often. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#inspirational #kindness #smile #inspirational

It is therefore of supreme importance that we consent to live not for ourselves but for others. When we do this we will be able first of all to face and accept our own limitations. As long as we secretly adore ourselves, our own deficiencies will remain to torture us with an apparent defilement. But if we live for others, we will gradually discover that no expects us to be 'as gods'. We will see that we are human, like everyone else, that we all have weaknesses and deficiencies, and that these limitations of ours play a most important part in all our lives. It is because of them that we need others and others need us. We are not all weak in the same spots, and so we supplement and complete one another, each one making up in himself for the lack in another. ↗

— Thomas Merton

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