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Compassion is our most important practice. Understanding brings compassion. Understanding the suffering that living beings undergo helps liberate the energy of compassion. And with…

— Nhat Hanh

Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.

— Karen Armstrong

The sooner one develops compassion in this journey, the better. Compassion lets us appreciate that each individual is doing what he or she must…

— Ram Dass

Compassion and understanding are like my life principles I plan on practicing till the day I die. It may take a long, long time…

— Albert Einstein

Sometimes people feel disappointed when they hear about practicing compassion: "You mean I have to be nice?" It's kind of a letdown. We often…

— Sakyong Mipham

The only way to learn compassion is through your heart; you have to back up and pass through your own pain.

— Matthew Fox

Training in compassion is a mental activity. but our mind should also be brought to the level where every action we take is influenced…

— Gelek Rimpoche

If we only practice compassion on the mind level, we run a great risk of our compassion being just talk. As we know, talk…

— Gelek Rimpoche

To develop understanding, you have to practice looking at all living things with the eyes of compassion.

— Nhat Hanh

“Compassion does not need any special preparation, place or time. You can start it anywhere and anytime. Try it at home, work, school —or…

— Amit Ray

The path of compassion leads to the development of insight. But it doesn't work to say, "Ready, set, go! Be compassionate!" Beginning any practice…

— Sylvia Boorstein

You can't make yourself be compassionate, you can only keep stepping back and becoming a larger container in which compassion wants to live. The…

— Judith Hanson Lasater