…and as he begged with tears in his eyes, I felt compassion for him.

Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A sharp distinction between humans and ‘animals’ is essential if we...

To be human is, primarily, to embrace that we are human with strengths and weaknesses, and that our humanity is preordained to seek the Truth, Good and Beauty as part of our humanity. To be...

People that hurt others, only act on a pain they feel themselves.

To sense which gifts to accept & which to leave behind is our path to discovering freedom.

Why must you know the details of my troubles to have compassion? Is it not enough to show compassion simply because you know that everyone has troubles?

It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identification through one’s own sensitivity with suffering of one’s fellow human beings.” (p. 16-17)

The Gelaming regarded themselves as a force for good, and in many ways they were, but they were also inexorable and their compassion could often feel like oppression.

Who doesn’t want to know that we notice them and value them? And who might respond to us better when they feel that they matter? It probably cannot be overstated – it matters…that people matter.

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...

It only takes a split second to smile and forget, yet to someone that needed it, it can last a lifetime.

Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals. (attr to J. Isham)

Their lives revolved around evil acts; some within their control, and some not. Some of them weren’t born with the capacity for kindness, and others found it better to spare no compassion for anyone in...

But those who are incapable ofpitying animals are, as a matter of fact, incapable of pitying men.A physician who would cut a living rabbit in pieces — laying barethe nerves, denuding them with knives, pulling...

In great hearts the cruelty of life gives birth to good.

Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.

Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men’s hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words.

wandering is an art and wandering compassion-less is best form of an art.

Anguish is the universal language

When you deal with something like compassion for physical pain, which we know is very, very old in evolution – we can find evidence for it in nonhuman species – the brain processes it at...

To advance spiritually requires a method of practice & determination to carry it out.

We can see Spirit made visible when people are kind to one another, especially when it’s a really busy person, like you, taking care of a needy, annoying, neurotic person, like you.

There is nothing more important to me than friendship. Nothing makes me feel happier, more loved, or more alive than when I make a friend. When one of my friends is upset, I will drop...

Humanity is not only ‘great acts’ spending thousands, putting your name on headlines. Humanity is to be kind to every living being, to be compassionate towards all, even to the tiniest animal, seen and unseen....

How about another run?

It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.

Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.

If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.

We must empower our weak to be strong, and teach our strong to be compassionate. This will open a door to oneness.

When you serve the humanity with compassion and kindness,You express your spontaneous love and inner greatness.

Gain strength. Suck up energy. Make a point of appreciating the fragrance of the flowers and the beauty of the sunset. It is like armor. When you take a moment to practice my message you...

The topic of compassion is not at all religious business; it is important to know it is human business, it is a question of human survival.

This is my letter to the worldThat never wrote to me

I knew then that this is how God loves us all and receives us all, and that there is no such thing in this universe as hell, except maybe in our own terrified minds. Because...

Perimeter is not meaning, but it changes meaning,/as wit increases distance, and compassion erodes it.

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

Disgust at idols strengthened his love for idolaters, and the man who once held Gentile neighbors at a distance now listened to their problems, fears, and temptations.

This morning I awoke drowning in sadness. Sleepily, I probed my heart looking for a cause.Then, rising from the dream, I took possession of my feelings and gave them back to God – the only...

The thought manifests the word;The word manifests the deed;The deed develops into habit;And habit hardens into character;So watch the thought and its ways with care,And let them spring forth from loveBorn out of compassion for...

You cannot fight hate and violence with more hate and violence, any more than you can conquer darkness with more darkness. Adding darkness only increases blackness. To subtract shadow, add light.

You can’t change a regime on the basis of compassion. There’s got to be something harder.

lead in promotion of spirituality and compassion for humanity.

…writers, like priests, should have compassion…and a sensitivity to pain…

When we involve others in spontaneous acts of kindness, we go from being strangers to becoming a united team connected at the heart level.

And the second [thing about the CBS EVENING NEWS that stands out in the mind of Michael J. Fox] was something Katie did later in the interview, as the drugs kicked in and the tremors...

You are the very creator and co-creator of your own reality. When you allow yourself to remember what you already know about yourself on the spirit level, you shine the light of unconditional love, compassion...

When we look into the eyes of others with compassion, our personal biases suddenly begin to fade away. Then, we can see others for what they truly are, Human.

If they had had a different neighbour, one less sel-absorbed and more concerned for others, a man of normal, charitable instincts, their desperate state would not have gone unnoticed, their distress-signals would have been heard,...

Everyone breathing is broken. Keep breathing light into them until the stained glass collage takes your breath away.

The path of compassion does not obligate you to love people regardless of how they act or who they are. It is a path of seeing the truth of who people are, acknowledging all their...