Being human Quote by Henri Nouwen Download Open image “Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.” — Henri Nouwen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Being human Brokenness Compassion Conditions Human compassion Humans Immersion Mean
Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Compassion is the awareness of a deep bond between yourself and all creatures. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and to sense… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
Compassion is the intention to see each human being as no better or worse than yourself, neither more nor less important, and as fundamentally… — Timothy Miller Copy Share Image
Compassion is a mental quality that can bring us true lasting inner peace and inner strength. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Compassion is the ability to understand how difficult it is for people to be the best of what they want to be at all… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
Compassion is a living, breathing, organic emotion that vibrates through you and links you to those around you. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“Compassion means "with suffering" and involves entering into the suffering of another in order to lead the way out.” — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield Copy Share Image
Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self. — Arnold Toynbee Copy Share Image
Compassion is where you have to step outside of your comfort zone, and help people you dont normally associate with, is powerful. — Kemmy Nola Http://wwwamoreloveforlifecom Copy Share Image
Compassion allows us to bear witness to suffering, whether it is in ourselves or others, without fear; it allows us to name injustice without… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
We are not the healers, we are not the reconcilers, we are not the givers of life. We are sinful, broken, vulnerable people who… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The more we touch the intimate love of God which creates, sustains, and guides us, the more we recognize the multitude of fruits that… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Feelings of guilt dominate our work as peacemakers we cannot last long. But when we have opened each other's eyes to the great human… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
...we all want to hear stories, from the moment we are born to the moment we die. Stories connect our little lives with the… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I have found it very important...to let go of my wishes and start hoping. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Simply being with someone is difficult because it asks of us that we share in the other's vulnerability, enter with him or her into… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Jesus says, "Keep your heart on the kingdom first. Keep your heart on God's love. Keep focused on the fact that you are God's… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
This sounds very simple and maybe even trite, but very few people know that they are loved without condition or limits. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“The more preoccupied we are with security the more visible the force of death becomes, whether in the form of a pistol beside our… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
If you feel a great loneliness and a deep longing for human contact, you have to be extremely discerning...and ask yourself whether this situation… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I choose L'Arche; L'Arche chooses me. I would be dead if I weren't here. I need people to love me and care for me. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
The concept of humanity is an especially useful ideological instrument of imperialist expansion, and in its ethical-humanitarian form it is a specific vehicle of… — Carl Schmitt Copy Share Image
We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“There are no greater or truer lords, gods, fathers, sons or holy spirits, than the humans. Humans are the highest beings on earth.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but if we… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
We’re built to deal with death, disease, failure, struggle, heartbreak, problems. It’s what separates us from the animals and why we envy and love… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
“There are countless reasons to be jealous. But that doesn’t mean you have to succumb to them.” — Beth Revis Copy Share Image
“I honour the clarity of the present moment, and the stillness at the centre of being (mine & others), even in the midst of… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
It's the strangest thing about being human: to know so much, to communicate so much, and yet always to fall so drastically short of… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human being takes… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Heartbreak is our indication of sincerity: in a love relationship, in a work, in trying to learn a musical instrument, in the attempt to… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
The Gnostics believed that exile was the essential condition of man. Do you agree? I do. The artist and the addict both wrestle with… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
“Either way, you were connected. By your desires. By your defiance. By the simple, complicated fact of who you were.” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
