Compassion Quote by Joan Halifax Download Open image “Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.” — Joan Halifax ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Compassion Enemy Fear Inspiration Moral Motivation Outrage Pity
The compassion we feel normally is biased and mixed with attachment. Genuine compassion flows towards all living beings, particularly your enemies. If I try… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Compassion makes no distinction between friends and enemies, neighbors and outsiders, compatriots and foreigners. Compassion is the gate to human community. — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
“Compassion doesn't arise from the belief that the evil in the world is somebody else's fault or that it is a result of poor… — Holly Sprink Copy Share Image
Compassion arises naturally as the quivering of the heart in the face of pain, ours and another's. True compassion is not limited by the… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Want compassion is not to be numbered among the general faults of mankind. The black ingredient which fouls our disposition is envy. Hence our… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Pity arises when we are sorry for someone.Compassion is when we understand and help wisely. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way. — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Compassion isn't a sign of weakness, but a mark of civilization. — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
We have even done a weekend on Japanese grammar! Not that I know anything about Japanese grammar, but it was Kaz's idea, and it… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way. And compassion helps us… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
Buddhist practice is the grounding for this work, this life, this way. — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
We have been teaching together [with Kaz] now for more than twenty years in sesshins, in international travel programs in Japan and China, as… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
All are interconnected...the environment; rights of the dying; care of caregivers; education and medical care for peoples of the Himalayas; prison work; those living… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
“Within and around the earth, within and around the hills, within and around the mountains your authority returns to you.” — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
“Some of us are drawn to mountains the way the moon draws the tide. Both the great forests and the mountains live in my… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
I am working on a technical paper on compassion. So I am reading everything I can on the subject, including my own mind and… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
The roots of all living things are tied together. Deep in the ground of being, they tangle and embrace. This understanding is expressed in… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
I remember having a discussion with [Kaz] about his translation of the word shunyata as "boundlessness," instead of the more traditional "emptiness." I said:… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
If compassion is so good for us, why don't we train our health care providers in compassion so that they can do what they're… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“I fight with love and kindness as my weapons and compassion as my defense.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
I really enjoy making people laugh; I've discovered that's a great technique. That's as powerful as stirring their sorrow, stirring their compassion, because that… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“If you refuse to use physical force, then you will be at the mercy of your oppressor!” — Segun Magbagbeola Copy Share Image
For some reason, we are truly convinced that if we criticize ourselves, the criticism will lead to change. If we are harsh, we believe… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We are puzzled and bewildered whenever we see suffering in this world because we have become accustomed to the mercy and the long-suffering of… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
“Helpers in every corner, helpers in every hood. That's how we'll make the move, to reform from rude.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
There are a number of qualities which are important for mental peace, but from the little experience I have, I believe that one of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
May the gods have mercy on whoever pisses them off, because Zarek and Jericho will have none for them. (Madoc) You’d better be glad… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate guilt but,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
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