#compass

God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#dream #family #god #goodness #i

You can relate to somebody's pain and you have compassion, which can lead to intimacy. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#intimacy #lead #pain #relate #somebody

I was extremely greedy and lost my moral compass. ↗

— Andrew Fastow

#extremely #greedy #i #lost #moral

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

#empathy #love #dreams

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform. ↗

— Chanakya

#desires #divine #heart #mind #needed

Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#be true #compassion #despair #faith #generals

We can discover the capacity of the mind to be aware, to love, to begin again ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#compassion #wisdom #love

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more intelligent and more educated than college professors. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#education #knowledge #life-lessons #understanding #education

All it takes for generosity to flow is awareness. By actively pursuing awareness and knowledge, we can make choices that cause less harm and greater good to others in the global community of our shared earth. ↗

— Zoe Weil

#compassion #education #global-community #humane #mogo

Simply being with someone is difficult because it asks of us that we share in the other's vulnerability, enter with him or her into the experience of weakness and powerlessness, become part of the uncertainty, and give up control and self-determination. (p. 12) ↗

— Henri J. M. Nouwen Donald P. McNeill Douglas A. Morrison

#presence #experience