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We eat as sons and daughters, as families, as communities, as generations, as nations, and increasingly as a globe. We can't stop…
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August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly…
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SADNESSES OF THE INTELLECT: Sadness of being misunderstood [sic]; Humor sadness; Sadness of love wit[hou]t release; Sadne[ss of be]ing smart; Sadness of…
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The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely…
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Murdering someone would surely prove that you are capable of killing, but it wouldn't be the most reasonable way to understand why…
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Be the instrument playing the sound of your life's passing
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I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it…
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Animal agriculture makes a 40% greater contribution to global warming than all transportation in the world combined; it is the number one…
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When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.
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How would you judge an artist who mutilated animals in a gallery because it was visually arresting? How riveting would the sound…
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The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't…
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Everyone is always in need of something that another person can give, be it undivided attention, a kind word or deep empathy.…
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It is lack of love for ourselves that inhibits our compassion toward others. If we make friends with ourselves, then there is…
— Dalai Lama
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...the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of…
— Robert Kennedy
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A woman should always challenge our respect, and never move our compassion.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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For the United States, supporting international development is more than just an expression of our compassion. It is a vital investment in…
— Condoleezza Rice
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Animals are not property or "things" but rather living organisms, subjects of a life, who are worthy of our compassion, respect, friendship,…
— Marc Bekoff
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Our compassion is the fruit of our spiritual lives; it actually arises spontaneously when formed by intention in our spiritual practice. Love…
— Wayne Teasdale
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I believe God loves the world through us - through you and through me. We use Mother Teresa's name; it is only…
— Mother Teresa
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GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
— Robert Kennedy
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We are...capable of using our compassion and our intelligence, our technology and our wealth, to make an abundant and meaningful life for…
— Carl Sagan
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Hate has no place in the house of God. No one should be excluded from our love, our compassion or our concern…
— Desmond Tutu
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Whatever life presents us, our response can be an expression of our compassion.
— Sharon Salzberg
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I call upon you to draw from the depths of your being - to prove that we are a human race, to…
— Elizabeth Taylor
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