#compassion

Compassion is not complete if it does not include oneself. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#compassion #eastern-philosophy #mindfulness #art

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men. ↗

— Francis of Assisi

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The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear & jealousy. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#compassion #kindness #change

You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#motivation #risk #submission #motivational

As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way. ↗

— Mary Anne Radmacher

#giving #kindness #light #nature

The nature of compassion isn't coming to terms with your own suffering and applying it to others: It's knowing that other folks around you suffer and, no matter what happens to you, no matter how lucky or unlucky you are, they keep suffering. And if you can do something about that, then you do it, and you do it without whining or waving your own fuckin' cross for the world to see. You do it because it's the right thing to do. ↗

— John Connolly

#suffer #suffering #nature

When we know ourselves to be connected to all others, acting compassionately is simply the natural thing to do. ↗

— Rachel Naomi Remen

#connection #kindness #nature

Don't believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that - thoughts. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#illusion #mindfulness #reality #thinking #thoughts

There is one advantage to realizing that you're never going to get it right: you do begin to stop expecting everyone else to get it right too, which makes for less frustration when other people turn out to be just as human as you are. ↗

— Jeff Wilson

#humanity #kindness #perfection #buddhism

Don't judge without having heard both sides. Even persons who think themselves virtuous very easily forget this elementary rule of prudence. ↗

— St. Josemaría Escrivá

#compassion #opus-dei #charity