Being hurt Quote by Krishna Das

When we get emotionally and spiritually involved in helping a person who is in pain, a compassion enters our heart. It hurts, but the…

— Glenn L. Pace

Compassion constitutes a radical form of criticism, for it announces that the hurt is to be taken seriously, that the hurt is not to…

— Walter Brueggemann

Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion…

— Anonymous

COMPASSION: The Essence of Feeling Another's Pain, While Easing Their Hurt.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well…

— Pema Chodron

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there…

— Frederick Buechner

I don't think of compassion as sympathy but rather as empathy. An understanding of how people are feeling, which often translates into action.

— Hazel Hawke

Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others…

— Anonymous

Compassion offers whatever is necessary to heal the hurts of others.

— Anonymous

“At first, as we undertake the cultivation of compassion, we may feel genuine empathy with others in pain or difficulty. This happens when we…

— Joseph Goldstein

Compassion is to look beyond your own pain, to see the pain of others.

— Yasmin Mogahed

True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it.

— Daniel Goleman