"Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things……" — Joan Halifax
"Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear."
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28 Quotes by Joan Halifax
Joan Halifax has 28 quotes on this site.
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If compassion is so good for us, why don't we train our health care providers in compassion so that they…
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May I see my own limits with compassion, just as I view the limits of others.
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Yes, creation is moving toward us; life is moving toward us all the time. We back away, but it keeps…
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We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity,…
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We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not…
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All beings, including each one of us, enemy and friend alike, exist in patterns of mutuality, interconnectedness, co-responsibility and ultimately…
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We believe that it takes a strong back and a soft front to face the world.
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In being with dying, we arrive at a natural crucible of what it means to love and be loved. And…
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Developing our capacity for compassion makes it possible for us to help others in a more skillful and effective way.
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When we have disorderly lives, it makes it difficult for our minds to be orderly and for us to be…
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Since we are already Buddhas, happy and suffering Buddhas, wise and confused Buddhas, we are already Buddha.
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Death can come at any moment. You could die this afternoon; you could die tomorrow morning; you could die on…
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More Compassion Quotes
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
— Karen Armstrong
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Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and…
— Karen Armstrong
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st…
— Karen Armstrong
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Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is…
— Karen Armstrong
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Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar.
— Karen Armstrong
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If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will…
— Francis of Assisi
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Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat…
— Sri Aurobindo
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My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants;…
— Teresa of Avila
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People confuse compassion with government being compassionate with other people's money versus people being compassionate with their own money.
— Michele Bachmann
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
— James M. Barrie
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If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of…
— Gary Bauer
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One thing everyone seems to agree on is that Republicans face a perceived compassion deficit.
— Gary Bauer
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