The practicing of loving kindness toward one's enemy is the ultimate test of one's own spiritual attainment. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Mindfulness needs to not be judgmental to really be mindfulness, which means it needs a basis of loving kindness. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“True love is made of four elements: loving kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity.” — Thich Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
To practice Zen Buddhism is to train oneself to eliminate hatred, anger and selfishness and to develop loving-kindness towards all. — Thich Thien-An Copy Share Image
“...forgiveness is not a condoning of the unskillful act which has caused injury, but a touching of the actor with mercy and… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
You only tasted the water. I tasted the gift. The water was simply the container for an act of loving-kindness and nothing… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
“Albeit i may die sleep not in the coffen of gold and even beer no fruit; but my impact after depart is… — Oladosu feyikogbon Copy Share Image
“The practice of loving-kindness is about cultivating love as a trans-formative strength,” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“Cultivating loving kindness for ourselves is the foundation of real love for our friends and family, for new people we encounter in… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Whatever grounds there are for making merit productive of a future birth, all these do not equal a sixteenth part of the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Let him who glories glory in this, That he understands and knows Me, That I am the LORD, exercising loving kindness, justice,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Loving kindness practice helps us move out of the terrain of our default narratives if they tend to be based on fear… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
O child of God, be more careful to keep the way of the Lord, more concentrated in heart in seeking His glory,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
When I look like this into the blue sky, it seems so deep, so peaceful, so full of a mysterious tenderness, that… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
What a beautiful world God, in His loving kindness to His creatures, has given us! What a shame that men endowed with… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
“Amuse not thy self therefore with the numerous Opinions of the World, nor value thy self upon verbal Orthodoxy, Philosophy, or thy… — William Penn Copy Share Image
[Parental] authority must be tempered...with loving kindness and patient encouragement. To temper authority with kindness is to triumph in the struggle which… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
If for just the time of a finger-snap a monk produces a thought of loving-kindness, develops it, gives attention to it, such… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Just as a mother would protect with her life her own son, her only son, so one should cultivate an unbounded mind… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Yea, let them which have been redeemed of the Lord, shew how He hath delivered them from the hand of the oppressor.… — William Bradford Copy Share Image
It is possible that the next Buddha will not take the form of an individual. The next Buddha may take the form… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Loving kindness towards ourselves doesn't mean getting rid of anything. It means we can still be crazy after all these years. We… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Loving-kindness is the experience of having a friendly and loving relationship toward ourselves as well as all others. The experience of sending… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
“Like the most of you, I was raised among people who knew - who were certain. They did not reason or investigate.… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“In meditation we discover our inherent restlessness. Sometimes we get up and leave. Sometimes we sit there but our bodies wiggle and… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“Mind is a forerunner of all actions. All deeds are led by mind, created by mind. If one speaks or acts with… — Dhammapada Copy Share Image
“Monks, even if bandits were to savagely sever you, limb by limb, with a double-handled saw, even then, whoever of you harbors… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Inside the narrow skull of the miner pinned beneath the fallen timber, there lives a world. Parents, friends, a home, the hot… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when we pray, we are so busy concentrating on ourselves, and the problems we have, that we forget to be thankful.… — Lynn R. Davis Copy Share Image
“For every bad man and woman I have ever known, I have met . . . an overwhelming number of thoroughly clean… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in the Arts. — Confucius Copy Share Image
“Some people are born empty. All manner of good deeds and patience and loving kindness can't even begin to fill them up.” — Marlena De Blasi Copy Share Image
I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion. — Ron Reagan Copy Share Image
“Speak Life: You are loved. You have purpose. You are a masterpiece. You are wonderfully made. God has a great plan for… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all? Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“When we relate to ourselves with loving kindness, perfectionism naturally drops away.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross… — Anonymous Copy Share Image