A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The most hurtful thing is not what comes from our adversaries, it's what comes from our friends.
Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.
Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.
Perpetrators absolve their harmful behavior as serving worthy causes.
Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.
Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for. I honor my grief.
To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.
It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.
If you think about the people trying to hurt you, rather than just trying to hurt them back, you can understand it has nothing to do with you.
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