Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
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No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we love, the more the object of our love seems to us to be a victim.
Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.
Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.
Love and compassion don't at all have to make us weak, or lead us to losing discernment and vision. We just have to learn how to find them. And see, in truth, what they bring us.
If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self.
A compassionate mind is very difficult to cultivate because compassion demands a sense of equality between all living beings.
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a necessity for our well-being, resilience, and survival.
Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.
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