I think our capacity for wholeheartedness can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted. It means engaging with the world from a place of vulnerability and worthiness.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.
What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind. Too often, our world is divisive and cruel where it needs to be uniting and loving.
I've learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.
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.
Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.
We need to appreciate how precious life is.
When your life is as precious as all our lives are, then it needs to be kept precious and looked after and treated well. And that is not something we should be sharing with a wider audience.
The entire world is a witness to the phenomenon that sorrows keep away from the kindhearted and compassionate.
I'm trying to create the world around myself to be a place of as much equality and openheartedness as possible.
Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.
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