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- So if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of…
- Training is needed in order to love properly; and to be able to give happiness and joy, you must practice DEEP LOOKING directed toward the…
- When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and…
- Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish. If you are not capable of generatng that kind of energy toward yourself- if…
- Mindful time spent with the person we love is the fullest expression of true love and real generosity.
- When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It…
- Freedom is the basic condition for you to touch life, to touch the blue sky, the trees, the birds, the tea, and the other person.
- Listening is a very deep practice. You have to empty yourself. You have to leave space in order to listen especially to people we think…
- Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening. You listen with…
- You cannot transmit wisdom and insight to another person. The seed is already there. A good teacher touches the seed, allowing it to wake up,…
- By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person.
- It is best if we do not listen to or look at the person whom we consider to be the cause of our anger. Like…
- Every one of us needs a home. The world needs a home. There are so many young people who are homeless. They may have a…
- When you are a young person, you are like a young creek, and you meet many rocks, many obstacles and difficulties on your way. You…
- Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath. Breathe…
- Harm no person, animal, plant or mineral.
- A bodhisattva is someone who has compassion within himself or herself and who is able to make another person smile or help someone suffer less.…
- Artists have to show us what is not going well within the person and within the society, not try to cover it up.
- We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If…
- If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day,…
- There are many levels of Christianity. There are many notions about God. To believe that God is a person is just one of the notions…
- Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you…
- When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment;…
- When you say something really unkind, when you do something in retaliation your anger increases. You make the other person suffer, and he will try…
- The source of love is deep in us and we can help others realize a lot of happiness. One word, one action, one thought can…
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- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
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- Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not… — Mary Kay Ash
- Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
- A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions. — Arthur Ashe