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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their…
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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to…
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We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;…
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Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great…
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying…
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Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied…
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All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about…
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Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.
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Let us never cease to feel compassion for those in want. Let us never tire of helping victims of injustice and oppression.…
— Poul Hartling
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Hatred, jealousy and excessive attachment cause suffering and agitation. I feel compassion can help us overcome these disturbances and let us return…
— Dalai Lama
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To love our enemy is impossible. The moment we understand our enemy, we feel compassion towards him/her, and he/she is no longer…
— Nhat Hanh
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At least once a year, I imagine that I am about to die. Looking back as truthfully as I can at my…
— Pema Chodron
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Before my marriage, I didn’t think about all the obligations that were awaiting me. My experience has proved useful and I think…
— Grace Kelly
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When you feel compassion, you dethrone yourself from the centre of the world.
— Karen Armstrong
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It is our own pain, and our own desire to be free of it, that alerts us to the suffering of the…
— Sylvia Boorstein
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I had all the characteristics of a human being—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that…
— Bret Easton Ellis
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The lesson I was learning involved the idea that I could feel compassion for people without acting on it.
— Melody Beattie
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Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep. It shows they have a great heart, one that can feel compassion for others."…
— Brian Jacques
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I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it. I would hope to act with compassion without thinking of personal…
— Thomas Aquinas
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We cannot ignore our pain and feel compassion for it at the same time.
— Brené Brown
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