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.
If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.
If you focus only on yourself and neglect others, you will lose; but you will gain if you value others as much as you cherish yourself.
I feel that the essence of spiritual practice is your attitude toward others. When you have a pure, sincere motivation, then you have right attitude toward others based on kindness, compassion, love and respect.
Today we face many problems. Some are created essentially by ourselves based on divisions due to ideology, religion, race, economic status, or other factors. Therefore, the time has come for us to think on a deeper level, on the human level, and from that level we should appreciate and respect the sameness of others as human beings.
The world will be saved by the western woman.
Always engage yourself positively with situations.
If there is love, there is hope that one may have real families, real brotherhood, real equanimity, real peace. If the love within your mind is lost and you see other beings as enemies, then no matter how much knowledge or education or material comfort you have, only suffering and confusion will ensue.
If I am only happy for myself, many fewer chances for happiness. If I am happy when good things happen to other people, billions more chances to be happy!
The practice of patience guards us against losing our presence of mind. It enables us to remain undisturbed, even when the situation is really difficult. It gives us a certain amount of inner peace, which allows us some self-control, so that we can choose to respond to situations in an appropriate and compassionate manner, rather than being driven by our disturbing emotions.
The deep root of failure in our lives is to think, 'Oh how useless and powerless I am.' It is essential to think strongly and forcefully, 'I can do it,' without boasting or fretting.
Our enemies provide us with a precious opportunity to practice patience and love. We should have gratitude toward them.
Friends, genuine friends, are attracted by a warm heart, not money, not power. A genuine friend considers you as just another human being, as a brother or sister, and shows affection on that level, regardless of whether you are rich or poor, or in a high position; that is a genuine friend.
No material object, however beautiful or valuable, can make us feel loved, because our deeper identity and true character lie in the subjective nature of the mind.
Look at children... If they feel angry with someone, they express it, and then it is finished. They can still play with that person the following day.
I always try to share with others the idea that in order to become compassionate it is not necessary to become religious.
When something needs to be done in the world to rectify the wrongs, if one is really concerned with benefiting others, one needs to be engaged, involved. This is action out of compassion.
Afflictive emotions - our jealousy, anger, hatred, fear - can be put to an end. When you realize that these emotions are only temporary, that they always pass on like clouds in the sky, you also realize they can ultimately be abandoned.
The purpose of life is to be happy.
Soul is at home in the deep, shaded valleys. Heavy torpid flowers saturated with black grow there. The rivers flow like warm syrup. They empty into huge oceans of soul.
Our greatest duty and our main responsibility is to help others. But please, if you can't help them, would you please not hurt them.
The essence of Buddhism is if you can, help others. If not, then at least refrain from hurting others.
Other human beings have a right to peace and happiness that is equal to our own; therefore we have a responsibility to help those in need.
Like the lotus which thrives in mud, the potential for realization grows in the rich soil of everyday life
The essence of compassion is a desire to alleviate the suffering of others and to promote their well-being
"Rulers come and go. It's the people who are the real rulers of the country."
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