#compass

Don't wait for other people to be loving, giving, compassionate, grateful, forgiving, generous, or friendly... lead the way! ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#forgiving #friendly #generous #giving #happiness

Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we’re adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#compassion #inspiration #mindfulness #experience

It is when we experience God most closely that our hearts burn most passionately to show his compassion to others. ↗

— Dillon Burroughs

#worship #experience

But those who are incapable of pitying animals are, as a matter of fact, incapable of pitying men. A physician who would cut a living rabbit in pieces -- laying bare the nerves, denuding them with knives, pulling them out with forceps -- would not hesitate to try experiments with men and women for the gratification of his curiosity. ↗

— Robert Ingersoll

#compassion #vivisection #experience

To be compassionate is to experience divinity in our everyday life ↗

— Dada J.P. Vaswani

#experience

Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path. ↗

— Tara Brach

#compassion #self-compassion #spiritual #freedom

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 echoes. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#empathy #imagination

If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others. Ideologues don't feel the pain of others because they haven't imaginatively got under their skins. ↗

— Yann Martel

#empathy #imagination

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate. ↗

— Robert Frost

#any #compassionate #generous #great #heart

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#compassionate #conservatives #less #liberals #most