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Compassion Quotes by Ram Dass
- Compassion is the basis of all truthful relationship: it means being present with love-for ourselves and for all life, including animals, fish, birds, and trees.…
- The God within is your Spiritual Heart. Your Soul. And in that individual Soul, rests God- rests the One. Go into your soul and your…
- The pain of the world will sear and break our hearts because we can no longer keep them closed. We've seen too much now. To…
- The sooner one develops compassion in this journey, the better. Compassion lets us appreciate that each individual is doing what he or she must do,…
- True compassion arises out of the plane of consciousness where I AM you.
- As we grow in our consciousness.. there will be more compassion and more love. And then... the barriers between people.. between religions.. and between nations…
- The root of compassion is not empathy; that is kindness. Kindness is great, but it is not the ultimate compassion. Ultimate compassion relieves the suffering…
- Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as…
- I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.
- Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.
- Compassion is the ability to see how it all is.
- Compassion and pity are very different. Whereas compassion reflects the yearning of the heart to merge and take on some of the suffering, pity is…
- As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will…
More Compassion Quotes
- Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong
- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
- If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life. — Karen Armstrong
- Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion… — Karen Armstrong
- Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar. — Karen Armstrong
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a… — Sri Aurobindo
- My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much… — Teresa of Avila
- People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money. — Michele Bachmann
- Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. — James M. Barrie
- If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of life. Instead,… — Gary Bauer
- One thing everyone seems to agree on is that Republicans face a perceived compassion deficit. — Gary Bauer