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...

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

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

I have to believe it’s right to be a warm voice, a companion if I can be, as soon as ever I find a friend.

We must fight against the spirit of unconscious cruelty with which we treat the animals. Animals suffer as much as we do. True humanity does not allow us to impose such sufferings on them. It...

As the aperture of your heart opens to love you will receive more of the light of compassion, acceptance, gentleness, grace and understanding.

Meditation is the process of transformation and beautification of soul from a leaf-eating caterpillar to a nectar-sipping butterfly. It grows with the wings of love and compassion.

Real action without the passion is difficult, but the real passion without the compassion is impossible.

Look at this woman. This beauty. What an act of grace. What a gift she gave me.Shame makes people abandon their children and drink themselves to death. It also keeps us from true happiness. An...

The life of Jesus suggests that to be like Abba is to show compassion. Donald Gray expresses this: “Jesus reveals in an exceptionally human life what it is to live a divine life, a compassionate...

When you can begin to see the similarities between you and your work colleagues in respect of ‘being human’ and the collective challenges we all face, it makes life much easier to deal with, especially...

Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect...

It was a long time since he’d done any actual clinical work, and obviously his sojourn among the academics at Saro University had attenuated the professional detachment that allows members of the healing arts to...

Your love is as stable as you are: It’s not about how good a person makes you feel, but rather what good you can do for them.

Despite your best efforts, not everyone wants to be helped. Make a difference where you can and be at peace with the rest.

John has a narrow mind. For him, neither the beauty nor the prosperity of the city of Ephesus is worth a second glance. Ephesus was situated at the end of the Silk Road from China...

The person you think is useless and a nobody today, might be the very person you will need tomorrow. Never look down on anyone.

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

Life is an endless sea of admiration, in constant collision with those who have aspired, to feel inspired once again.

True love is born from understanding.

This idea of compassion comes to us because we’re made in the image of God, who is ultimately the compassionate one.

In race of life, it does not matter who finishes first. What matters most is being able to complete your race.

Live,love and learn

Let us remember that animals are not mere resources for human consumption. They are splendid beings in their own right, who have evolved alongside us as co-inheritors of all the beauty and abundance of life...

The measure of a society is its compassion.

Even if toxic people are right about what is “good,” they are wrong if the approach is not healthy.

Then, as now, there would always be people who preferred the option of devoting their religious energies to sacred space over the more difficult duty of compassion.

You can’t eat beauty, it doesn’t feed you…beauty was not a thing that I could acquire or consume, it was something that I just had to be. You can’t rely on how you look to...

The most treasured and sacred moments of our lives are those filled with the spirit of love. The greater the measure of our love, the greater is our joy. In the end, the development of...

Hope finds its fulfillment when nurtured through faith and shared with love.

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

I couldn’t think of anyone I’d ever felt sorry for. There were plenty of kids I was envious of. There were others I achingly admired, but that might simply be another form of jealousy. Then...

It is one thing doing what you love for a living. It is another thing doing what you love with love

I made the choice to be vegan because I will not eat (or wear, or use) anything that could have an emotional response to its death or captivity. I can well imagine what that must...

The fragrance of meditation is enlightenment.

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Every single time you help somebody stand up you are helping humanity rise.

Compassion: a robust dance between grace and wisdom.

When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.

That we are not totally transformed, that we can turn away, turn the page, switch the channel, does not impugn the ethical value of an assault by images. It is not a defect that we...

Mental illness is not a fraternity or a social club for like minds. It is its own religion to each person that has it. Their mind is their pastor, their feelings are their scriptures and...

Forget what hurt you in the past, but never forget what it taught you. However, if it taught you to hold onto grudges, seek revenge, not forgive or show compassion, to categorize people as good...

Etymologically, ‘compassion’ means to suffer together. ‘Together,’ however, is different from ‘identically.’ Compassion is not the same as selflessness, and not really the opposite of selfishness. Rather, it provides a basis for helping other people...

Don’t forget to be kind, you will make someone’s day!

Compassion is so pure, I don’t think there is any way to taint it.

Compassion is the signature of Higher Consciousness. Non-violence is the tool to evolve into the Higher Consciousness.

The practice of lovingkindness can uplift us & relieve sorrow & unhappiness.

No one truly knows what they will do in a certain situation until they are actually in it. It’s very easy to judge someone else’s actions by what you assume your own would be, if...

Compassionate love may be strong. It sobs, it burns, then it wipes away its tears – and it does nothing.