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«Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.»

Author: Chogyam Trungpa | Keywords: automatically, compassion, drain, draining, drains, energy, invites, longer, no longer, regard, relate

«As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery? we have learned that the key to happiness is inner peace. The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as anger, attachment, fear and suspicion, while love and compassion and a sense of universal responsibility are the sources of peace and happiness.»

Author: Dalai Lama | Keywords: anger, attachment, beings, compassion, disturbing, emotions, free love, human beings, inner, Inner peace, key, misery, Obstacles, peace and love, responsibility, sense of responsibility, sources, such as, suspicion, universal, Universals

«All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness ... the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.»

Author: Dalai Lama | About: Religion | Keywords: All messages, basically, carry, compassion, daily, forgiveness, major, majors, message, religious, the majors, Traditions

«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.»

Author: Frederick Buechner (Author) | About: Compassion | Keywords: capacity, compassion, fatal, finally, skin, skinned, skinning, Somebody else, The Knowledge

«Compassion, forgiveness, these are the real, ultimate sources of power for peace and success in life.»

Author: Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama | Keywords: compassion, forgiveness, peace, power, real, sources, success, these, ultimate

«Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.»

Author: Henry Ward Beecher | About: Compassion, Sin | Keywords: compassion, condemnation, cure, sins

«A bodhisattva is someone who has compassion within himself or herself and who is able to make another person smile or help someone suffer less. Every one of us is capable of this.»

Author: Thich Nhat Hanh (Activist, Monk, Writer) | Keywords: Bodhisattva, capable, compassion, One of Us

«A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.»

Author: Albert Einstein (Physicist) | About: Mankind | Keywords: affection, a few, beauty, being, called, circles, circling, compassion, consciousness, Consciousness only, creatures, delusion, desires, embrace, experiences, feelings, few, free, freeing, freer, freest, free thought, free time, from the, human, human being, in a circle, in time, ITS, kind, kind of, limited, living, My Beauty, nearest, near in, optical, part, part time, personal, Personal experience, persons, prison, rest, restrict, restricted, restricting, restricts, separated, space, spaced, space like, spacing, task, tasked, tasking, The Creatures, the universe, thoughts, time and space, to the limit, universe, whole, widen, widened, widening, widens

«Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.»

Author: Dalai Lama | About: Compassion | Keywords: compassion, luxury, religious, stability, survival

«Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell»

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche (Critic, Philosopher, Scholar) | Keywords: compassion, conceal, shell, shells

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