May I see my own limits with compassion, just as I view the limits of others. — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear. — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have created. — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
I am working on a technical paper on compassion. So I am reading everything I can on the subject, including my own… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
Many of us think that compassion drains us, but I promise you it is something that truly enlivens us. — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
If compassion is so good for us, why don't we train our health care providers in compassion so that they can do… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. And compassion… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
Most of us are shrinking in the face of psycho-social and physical poisons, of the toxins of our world. But compassion, the… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury;… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
We have even done a weekend on Japanese grammar! Not that I know anything about Japanese grammar, but it was Kaz's idea, and it… — Joan Halifax Copy Share
Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. And compassion helps us… — Joan Halifax Copy Share
We have been teaching together [with Kaz] now for more than twenty years in sesshins, in international travel programs in Japan and China, as… — Joan Halifax Copy Share
All are interconnected...the environment; rights of the dying; care of caregivers; education and medical care for peoples of the Himalayas; prison work; those living… — Joan Halifax Copy Share
“Within and around the earth, within and around the hills, within and around the mountains your authority returns to you.” — Joan Halifax Copy Share
“Some of us are drawn to mountains the way the moon draws the tide. Both the great forests and the mountains live in my… — Joan Halifax Copy Share
I am working on a technical paper on compassion. So I am reading everything I can on the subject, including my own mind and… — Joan Halifax Copy Share
Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear. — Joan Halifax Copy Share
The roots of all living things are tied together. Deep in the ground of being, they tangle and embrace. This understanding is expressed in… — Joan Halifax Copy Share
I remember having a discussion with [Kaz] about his translation of the word shunyata as "boundlessness," instead of the more traditional "emptiness." I said:… — Joan Halifax Copy Share
If compassion is so good for us, why don't we train our health care providers in compassion so that they can do what they're… — Joan Halifax Copy Share
May I see my own limits with compassion, just as I view the limits of others. — Joan Halifax Copy Share
