You’ll be ready for this change – when you’re ready – not a moment before. Don’t beat yourself up if you’re not ready.

Many of us think that compassion drains us, but I promise you it is something that truly enlivens us.

Inherent in all persons does be,Love and compassion unfailingly.Give to others your love freely,And receive in turn love purely.[112]- 4

It is a hard lesson to learn and a lesson we most of us need to learn at some point: We cannot assume to know a person’s history from their face.

God is great not just because nothing is too big for Him. God is great because nothing is too small for Him, either.

The essence of a mature human being in religious terms is the ability to see, to be aware of others’ suffering and to be touched by it.

Night becomes day only when the sun appears; dark man becomes good man only when the compassion appears!

Having a vested interest in other souls unconditionally creates a ripple effect that produces miracles in the lives of those around us.

The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.

Walk with me for a while, my friend—you in my shoes, I in yours—and then let us talk.

If you want to find money, focus on people. If you want to lose people, focus on money.

Your emotional understanding about the preciousness of your human birth comes through conscious, repetitive mind training.

My daughter said, ‘we have to do something,’ and she called the Red Cross, … She has a lot of compassion and made me proud.

Just eat me up if you want to.” Then that demon left too.

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity and fear of others. Never decide to do nothing just because you can only do little. Do what you can. You would be surprised at what “little” acts have...

The rest of the world can go to hell. We don’t care.

By serving humanity, I automatically serve myself.

There are many roads that lead to a happy joyful life but two of the most useful are called kindness and compassion”.

Death is a tragedy whether it is in the death of one girl-woman in London or seventy-seven men, women, and children in Norway. We know this, but perhaps it needs to be said over and...

Family and friends become oppressors the moment they teach you that loyalty is more important than what is done to people outside your social circle. What they are really saying is this: Save yourself because...

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams

Simple shifts in points of view can open doors to expansions of consciousness as easily as rigid dispositions can close hearts and minds to such elevated awareness. It generally depends on whether you allow fear...

It is hard to draw any line between compassion and love.

Most governments are pragmatic, most people are logical. There are pockets of extremism in Israel, in the U.S. and in the Muslim world. But we have to fight them with reason, with logic and with...

Nonviolence aims at doing no harm to living being. Compassion aims at doing good to all being.

Our work is not to become a better person, but to become present to the perfection we already are.

I never lie,” I said offhand. “At least not to those I don’t love.

In truth she is not a hard lady naturally, and the time has been when the sight of the venerable figure suing to her with such strong earnestness would have moved her to great compassion....

Teach children the value of work and to work hard at everything they do. The virtue of compassion and value of appreciation of the hard work of others too.

Nor is it the spirit of those Christians – alas, they are many – whose ambition in life seems limited to building a nice middle-class Christian home, and making nice middle-class Christian friends, and bringing...

Those who live as though God sets the rules are not going by their own rules. That is the self-sacrifice, or selflessness, that peace more often than not requires. Those who insist on going by...

When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.

If you truly have compassion in your heart, show it by keeping your doubts to yourself and sharing your hope with those who love change!

We are mortals all, human and nonhuman, bound in one fellowship of love and travail. No one escapes the fate of death. But we can, with caring, make our good-byes less tormented. If we broaden...

Life is about getting and sharing. The more you share, the more you get ….and the more you get, the more your sharing responsibility multiplies.

He told me that while he was in a Chinese Communist gulag for almost eighteen years, he faced danger on a few occasions. I thought he was referencing a threat to his own life. But...

The experience of humanism is that ‘nothing human is alien to me’; that I carry within myself all of humanity; that nothing which exists in any human being does not exist in myself. I am...

The truth is that she was always much more forgiving of animals than people…Her sympathy for the underdog–or the underwasp, underrat, undercat, undersnail, underbird, underspider, undermouse, undergecko, undercentipede–was limitless. In the depths of a gloomy...

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.

Nobody wants to fall into a safety net, because it means the structure in which they’ve been living is in a state of collapse and they have no choice but to tumble downwards. However, it...

Without love, we would not comprehend compassion.- Govinda Shauri

for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one’s own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred...

To know another person is to Know How to live and work with her. To know another person in a moral sense is to Know How to respect her… Respect must show in action.

All beings seek for happiness; so let your compassion extend itself to all.

Whisper sweetly the tenderness of the moment. Let the love teach you the true meaning and passion of this experience we share. With gratitude and reverence for the blessings and miracles I receive and witness,...

A GUIDED TOUR OF SUFFERING: To your left, perhaps your right, perhaps even straight ahead, you find a small black room. In it sits a Jew. He is scum. He is starving. He is afraid....

you keep me going when i feel like a flat tyreyou do my head right, like a hair dryercan i call you my machanic since you change my mood and get me feeling like i...

We have the power to improve our work lives immeasurably through awareness, compassion, patience & ingenuity.

Love is so wonderful and free to give, and it’s the one thing they can’t make you pay taxes on.

What is success? What does it mean that someone is successful? Success can be different things to different people. For us being successful is a conscious choice to be oneself. Success does not have to...