- “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 up their children in nice middle-class Christian ways, and who leave the sub-middle-class sections of the community, Christian and non-Christian, to get on by themselves. The Christmas spirit does not shine out in the Christian snob. For the Christmas spirit is the spirit of those who, like their Master, live their whole lives on the principle of making themselves poor – spending and being spent – to enrich their fellowmen, giving time, trouble, care and concern to do good to others – and not just their own friends – in whatever way there seems need.” ― J.I. Packer, Knowing God
- “When people want to win they will go to desperate extremes. However, anyone that has already won in life has come to the conclusion that there is no game. There is nothing but learning in this life and it is the only thing we take with us to the grave—knowledge. If you only understood that concept then your heart wouldn’t break so bad. Jealousy or revenge wouldn’t be your ambition. Stepping on others to raise yourself up wouldn’t be a goal. Competition would be left on the playing field, and your freedom from what other people think about you would light the pathway out of hell.” ― Shannon L. Alder
- “The deletion of logic is through….LoveAcceptanceForgiveness Compassion Understanding Faith in the unknownPresent Moment Living Conscious Breathing” ― Matthew Donnelly
- “Wir alle stehen in Verbindung miteinander, nicht nur sozial und auf körperlicher Ebene, sondern auch über den Strom unserer Gedanken und Emotionen, die einander durchdringen …. Verantwortungsgefühl, Verständnis, Mitgefühl, Liebe, Nicht-Verletzen – das sind die wahren Glieder der Kette, die uns verbindet, und sie müssen in unseren Herzen geschmiedet werden.” ― Will Parfitt
- “By revealing to Tomas her dream about jabbing needles under her fingernails, Tereza unwittingly revealed that she had gone through his desk. If Tereza had been any other woman, Tomas would never have spoken to her again. Aware of that, Tereza said to him, Throw me out! But instead of throwing her out, he seized her hand and kissed the tips of her fingers, because at that moment he himself felt the pain under her fingernails as surely as if the nerves of her fingers led straight to his own brain.Anyone who has failed to benefit from the Devil’s gift of compassion (co-feeling) will condemn Tereza coldly for her deed, because privacy is sacred and drawers containing intimate correspondence are not to be opened. But because compassion was Tomas’s fate (or curse), he felt that he himself had knelt before the open desk drawer, unable to tear his eyes from Sabina’s letter. He understood Tereza, and not only was he incapable of being angry with her, he loved her all the more.” ― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- “Patience has all the time it needs.” ― Allan Lokos, Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living
- “You may turn every house in your neighborhood into a charity center, you may fill the land with soup-kitchens, but the misery of humans will still continue to exist until the character of humanity changes.” ― Abhijit Naskar, Principia Humanitas
- “LOVE of others is the appreciation of one’s self. MAY your egotism be so gigantic that you comprise mankind in your self-sympathy.” ― Mina Loy, The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy
- “Buddhist philosophy points out that the true nature of all forms is essentially formless. Forms do not have an existence of their own, but rather they arise together, and are mutually dependent on one another. Everything in the world of form is constantly changing, constantly dying, and constantly being reborn—which is why Buddhists say that there is no-self; no form that has an existence in and of itself.” ― Joseph P. Kauffman, The Answer Is YOU: A Guide to Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Freedom
- “The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating.” ― Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
- “One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone.” ― Shannon L. Alder
- “As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.” ― Pythagoras
- “How blind is the delusion that the greatness of a man is measured by his living; rather, it’s always by his giving.” ― Christian Hunt, The Dawn of Grace
- “When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.” ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
- “In the path of compassion even if we can save an insect that has a huge impact on the cosmos.” ― Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion
- “The other day, someone visited me and asked, ‘I wish to practice zazen under your guidance. But because I live far away, I can’t come to Antaiji very often. I’d like to practice zazen at home. What should I keep in mind to avoid doing zazen in a mistaken way?’ I responded, ‘If your wife and children say, “Daddy has become nicer since he began to do zazen,” then your practice is on the right track.’Roshi, Kosho Uchiyama. Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo (Kindle Locations 2519-2523). Wisdom Publications. Kindle Edition.” ― Kosho Uchiyama Roshi, Zen Teaching of Homeless Kodo
- “I am grateful to realize that my desires do not entitle me to add to another’s suffering.” ― Zoe Weil, Most Good, Least Harm: A Simple Principle for a Better World and Meaningful Life
- “We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.” ― Sharon Salzberg, Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation
- “Punker, what’s compassion for a world this far gone? The streets don’t give a fuck. It’s a bummer, your care slides down its target like beads of rain on rock. There’s no aquifer for any shit like this. Where does compassion go and can it be returned? You’re Donn in this world, with the staff and the purple band. The artificer. Walking the bandoned suites of hell and your eyeballs thinking, what can be saved? Not their gear but its aspects. You started kung fu way later than the rest, and before that you saw compassion in a history spiel. Now it keeps washing up on your shore. Giving a shit might be made of parts, it might be made solo. It might be an invasive species or not. Punks evolved from dinos too. Not even cross time and distance. But the spikes on their heads are the same.” ― Noah Wareness
- “The world exists because your mind exists. If your mind didn’t exist, there would be no world. As you look at these words, you see them in what appears to be a reality outside of you. What you are really seeing is the image that your mind is creating from the electrical signals being sent to your brain. While they may appear to be outside of you, this is an illusion, they exist within your own mind, and are being projected to appear as if they are outside of you. This apparent reality that is projected by our minds, is maya, and to believe that maya is the ultimate reality is a result of ignorance, or avidya in Sanskrit.” ― Joseph P. Kauffman, The Answer Is YOU: A Guide to Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Freedom
- “When in Reading Gaol he told me that the warders in the dock had been gentle and kind, but the visit of the chaplain in his first prison began with these words:’Mr. Wilde, did you have morning prayers in your house?”I am sorry… I fear not.”You see where you are now!” ― Charles Ricketts, Oscar Wilde: Recollections by Jean Paul Raymond
- “Feel compassion for your own heart that was broken open by grief or confusion.Then tune in to the other level of that experience. Some part of you was heroic inside that moment of your life.Some part of you was looking out for you, wanting you to make it through, encouraging you to love and heal and be larger than the message you were getting. Access the hero inside your own story….” ― Laurie Perez, Breakthrough: How to Have Compassion for Those Who Do Harm
- “The media and its indubitable legitimisations would echo for keeps, too, its conveyance of darkness and in the know of unhackneyed minds, acute to this stinky fog, we who have descended to the sapience of hatred, thinking it warrantable, would be inseparable from the vile.” ― Adeosun Olamide
- “Every day, bring some flowers to your life. Every day bring some blessings in someone’s life.” ― Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion
- “True balance, and harmony, necessitates finding a way to override the addictive, reactive emotions that are the fabric of one’s subjective illusion, and discover emotions that correspond to actuality.” ― Darrell Calkins, Re:
- “There’s never an excuse to be cruel. When you meet someone new, think first about all the good and the sad and the wonder and the worry that’s probably blooming in their heart. Just like yours.” ― Natalie Lloyd, The Problim Children
- “Be compassionate with all people.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
- “It is better to err on the side of feeling.” ― Marty Rubin
- “The fundamental principle of morality which we seek as a necessity for thought is not, however, a matter only of arranging and deepening current views of good and evil, but also of expanding and extending these. A man is really ethical only when he obeys the constraint laid on him to help all life which he is able to succour, and when he goes out of his way to avoid injuring anything living. He does not ask how far this or that life deserves sympathy as valuable in itself, nor how far it is capable of feeling. To him life as such is sacred. He shatters no ice crystal that sparkles in the sun, tears no leaf from its tree, breaks off no flower, and is careful not to crush any insect as he walks. If he works by lamplight on a summer evening, he prefers to keep the window shut and to breathe stifling air, rather than to see insect after insect fall on his table with singed and sinking wings.” ― Albert Schweitzer, The Animal World of Albert Schweitzer
- “Words have power, and when you speak you give them life. Speak into the atmosphere. Speak into existence what you believe, desire, dream, and hope.” ― Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Heart Crush