Quotes by Compassion Compassion is to share the pain without sharing the suffering. Shinzen Young paincompassionbusiness Every night on the stop global warming college tour, Laurie and I would tell these great young people that they have the power to do anything they want. That we all have the power to create a movement for change. That the best part of ourselves is the part that rises up instinctively from compassion. Sheryl Crow compassioncollegenight Keep compassion close to your chest at all times. Sho Baraka all-timechestscompassion The beginner's mind is the mind of compassion. When our mind is compassionate, it is boundless. Shunryu Suzuki beginnerscompassionmind By practicing compassion and forgiveness, one can control hatred. Shri Radhe Maa hatredcompassion Respect those elder to you in years, in knowledge and spiritual attainment and act with love and compassion with those who are younger or less fortunate than you. Shri Radhe Maa compassionspiritualyears In the beginner's mind there is no thought, "I have attained something." All self-centered thoughts limit our vast mind. When we have no thought of achievement, no thought of self, we are true beginners. Then we can really learn something. The beginner's mind is the mind of compassion. When our mind is compassionate, it is boundless. Dogen-zenji, the founder of our school, always emphasized how important it is to resume our boundless original mind. Then we are always true to ourselves, in sympathy with all beings, and can actually practice. Shunryu Suzuki compassionselfschool Abraham Lincoln because he was a man filled with great compassion who believed that all men are created free and equal, and was not afraid to stand on that platform. The way Lincoln lived his life has served me well in mine. Sidney Sheldon compassionmenway Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him. Simone Weil nursingcompassionlistening Justice consists in seeing that no harm is done to men. Whenever a man cries inwardly: 'Why am I being hurt?' harm is being done to him. He is often mistaken when he tries to define the harm, and why and by whom it is being inflicted on him. But the cry itself is infallible. Simone Weil compassionhurtmen Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility. Simone Weil oneselfcompassionhumility The path to guidance is one of love and compassion, not of force and coercion. Siyyid `Ali Muhammad Shirazi compassioncoercionpath The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have the capacity do not possess it. Simone Weil compassionsympathythinking The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion. Socrates understandingcompassionfirsts Ask yourself these two questions: Do I remember at every moment that I am dying, and that everyone and everything else is, and so treat all beings at all times with compassion? Has my understanding of death and impermanence become so keen and so urgent that I am devoting every second to the pursuit of enlightenment? If you can answer "yes" to both of these, then you really understand impermanence. Sogyal Rinpoche compassiontwodeath It is compassion, then, that is the best protection; it is also, as the great masters of the past have always known, the source of all healing. Sogyal Rinpoche compassionhealingpast Compassion directed to oneself is humility. Simone Weil oneselfcompassionhumility The feeding of those that are hungry is a form of contemplation. Simone Weil contemplationhungrycompassion Let your heart go out in spontaneous and immeasurable compassion. Sogyal Rinpoche spontaneouscompassionheart This dying forces you to look into yourself. And in this, compassion is the only way. Love is the only way. Sogyal Rinpoche dyingcompassionlove-is«102103104105106107108109110111112»
