If compassion is so good for us, why don't we train our health care providers in compassion so that they can do what they're supposed to do, which is to transform suffering?
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Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. And compassion helps us as well.
This idea of compassion comes to us because we're made in the image of God, who is ultimately the compassionate one.
Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
Most of us are shrinking in the face of psycho-social and physical poisons, of the toxins of our world. But compassion, the generation of compassion, actually mobilizes our immunity.
Many of us think that compassion drains us, but I promise you it is something that truly enlivens us.
I understand what it's like to go to hospitals and there's no medicine, and the best thing you have to give the patients is compassion.
I find that in the 21st century, there's not a lot of compassion for what other people are going through or the walk that they have to walk.
We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those conditions are things like ignorance, bitterness, negligence, clinging, and holding on.
Compassion is no substitute for justice.
Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.
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