Eknath Easwaran Quotes About Compassion

Quotes about: Compassion

• The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human being.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Kindness, Real, Compassion

  Eknath Easwaran (2012). “Take Your Time: The Wisdom of Slowing Down”, p.128, Nilgiri Press

• A calm mind releases the most precious capacity a human being can have: the capacity to turn anger into compassion, fear into fearlessness, and hatred into love.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Grateful, Compassion, Calm Mind

• My grandmother lived in a universe filled with life. It was impossible for her to conceive of any creature - even the smallest insect, let alone a human being - as insignificant. In every leaf, flower, animal, and star she saw an expression of a compassionate universe, whose laws were not competition and survival of the fittest but cooperation, artistry and thrift. . . .

  Eknath Easwaran

  Stars, Flower, Grandmother

• The earth was our home, she would have said, but no less was it home to the oxen that pulled our plows or the elephants that roamed in the forest and worked for us. They lived with us as partners whose well-being was inseparable from our own.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Home, Compassion, Elephants

  Eknath Easwaran “The Compassionate Universe: The Power of the Individual to Heal the Environment”, Nilgiri Press

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